Question

Which describe the structural differences between both texts? Select all that apply.


While the author of the story uses complete sentences, the playwright uses phrases.


While the drama contains stage directions, the story does not.


The drama uses lines for dialogue while in the story the dialogue is embedded within the plot.


The narrator of the drama is part of the cast while the narrator of the story is not part of the story.

Answer 1

Correct choices: 2 and 3.

- 2 is true: plays typically include stage directions; short stories do not.
- 3 is true: plays present dialogue as lines spoken by characters; in prose the dialogue is embedded in sentences/paragraphs.
- 1 is not a reliable difference: both prose and drama can use complete sentences or fragments; playwrights are not limited to phrases.
- 4 is not universally true: some plays have a narrator who’s a character, but many do not, and many stories have narrators who are characters (first person), so this is not a consistent structural difference.