Drama Quiz 12 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is an example of a Legend?
2. Is a fourteen line poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
3. What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?
4. Form of drama combining music, songs, spoken dialogue, and dance
5. The time and place
6. A group of actors who make up a film or stage play:
7. When the conflict is between multiple characters or forces in a drama (argument or physical fight).
8. A comic line or moment that offsets more serious content.
9. What is the Theme?
10. In a poem, a group of lines forming a unit (paragraph in prose)
11. Which of the following is NOT a component of PLOT?
12. The cast of characters is .....
13. Put ..... around a speaker's exact words
14. When a character tells their inner thoughts aloud is known as a-
15. The problem between the two characters is known as .....
16. Drama is written to be .....
17. The major sections of a play
18. What are stage directions in a play?
19. ..... is often contrasted with comedy. A distinguishing feature of this type of drama is that the events lead to the down fall of the main character.
20. In the theater, the performance takes place on the stage. The stage is decorated by a set, which represents the setting or settings where the play takes place. Everything on the set that the actors use are called props. Everything the actors wear are the costumes. There are also special lights and sounds that go into creating a performance. All of these elements are created by artists called theater designers.There is a whole second team of people behind the scenes or backstage making sure the play runs smoothly. These include the stage manager, who runs the play's technical aspects like changing the lights and sounds. There are also people moving scenery and props and helping the actors change costumes. All these people together are called the crew.During the performance of a play, who would be most likely to fix a technical problem that arises?
21. Why were the first plays written?
22. Which of the following best supports your answer to question 1?
23. Which of Charlie's characteristics prove that he is a protagonist?
24. A change in lighting, sounds, or props to show a new time or place is called a/an .....
25. It is a moveable object that appears on stage during a performance.
26. What is often divided into chapters?
27. Two or more scenes can be grouped into an .....
28. Why do authors use dialect?
29. When what is said is different than what is meant.
30. Form of literature that is written to be performed for an audience.
31. The way in which a play is arranged or organized is called ..... .
32. A group of verses in a poem are called ..... ?
33. The action in plays is divided into ..... and acts.
34. Provides information such as the time and place of the story or description of the setting.
35. One or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza
36. The writer of a play is called .....
37. What is the theme of "The Sound of Money?"
38. The characters talk to himself is called ..
39. The final situation in a story (the way things end up)
40. A paragraph in poetry,
41. An actor speaks directly and aloud to the members of the audience and it is assumed other characters didn't hear.
42. These plays focused on comedies which has a quality being encouraged by King Charles II.
43. In drama, the ANTAGONIST is .....
44. A rhythm pattern with five units, or feet, each of which has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
45. Which of the following does not contain alliteration?
46. This is an example of:GASTON:Hello, Belle. BELLE:Bonjour Gaston. (GASTON grabs the book from BELLE) Gaston, may I have my book, please? GASTON:How can you read this? There's no pictures! BELLE:Well, some people use their imaginations.
47. What is the beginning, middle, and end of a play?
48. ..... :When and where the play takes place.
49. What is an example of a Tall Tale?
50. A play in which the main character suffers a downfall, which may result from outside forces or a weakness in the character (tragic flaw)
51. A/An ..... is a story written to be performed in front of an audience.
52. Conclusion to story that reveals solution to problem/ conflict; not all stories have a clear resolution
53. The main character of a literary work is called the .....
54. The ..... is the written version of the play.
55. Type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse; suffering awaits many of the characters, especially the hero
56. The climax of the drama takes place when .....
57. This is the written text of a play.
58. Complete the sentence. The ..... is non-judgmental and ends with no absolutes.
59. The lines of the text the characters SPEAK are called .....
60. What is the element in a drama that tells the actors how to act or what to do?