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Drama Quiz 13 (60 MCQs)

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1. The major divisions in a play are called .....
2. How many forms of poetry are there?
3. An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience.
4. The ..... ..... tell the actors where to go, how to move and when to say their lines.
5. What is the primary purpose of drama?
6. Verse written in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
7. Instructions that tell the actors what they are supposed to do during acting:
8. One person speaking
9. When a character(s) are not aware of something that the audience knows.
10. The development and portrayal of a personality through thought, action, dialogue, costuming, and makeup
11. The new forms that were included by theatrical representations in Twentieth Century EXCEPT?
12. The entire text of the drama is called .....
13. What is a script?
14. The main character in a story is the .....
15. The collection of scenery, furniture, and other objects representing the location where a scene takes place in a play is called the .....
16. (from Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest) In this opening scene Jack Sparrow is sitting in a casket. The stage directions (HINT:not the answer to this question) give the readers information as to how he should act as the casket opens. [Jack Sparrow's hand is holding flintlock pistol emerges, pans about, points the gun at the audience for a moment. Then the camera pans to the casket and Jack breaks out of the top of the casket, puts his captain's hat on.]
17. Lines (verses) and stanzas are found?
18. This is a character whose traits contrast with those of another character. A writer may use a minor character as one to emphasize the positive traits of the main character.
19. The mode of expression or delivery of lines.
20. It is a contrived element in the plot used to solve a problem.
21. Poetry, Drama, Prose where would you find the element of cast of characters?
22. A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something;an enemy.
23. What is an element of a drama?
24. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, e.g., "seriously funny."
25. What is the definition of an act?
26. Playwright of the play Antigone
27. The sorting out of the conflict at the end of a play, novel, or story is called the .....
28. Which element will you find in all three forms of literature?
29. These stories are usually exaggerated.
30. A story with a happy ending that uses humor is a .....
31. A way to divide a play, a group of scenes
32. What is the correct term for "objects used in a play that bring it to life" ?
33. Basic sequence of events in a story
34. She/he operated the floor microphones and adjusts the sound.
35. A protagonist, or central character, who falls or dies because of a character flaw or cruel twist of fate.
36. Direct Characterization
37. The time and place in which a story occurs is called the
38. A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader/audience knows to be true.
39. One who is responsible for costume change.
40. It is a new genre of literature that brings literary craft from fiction to nonfiction.
41. The main idea (lesson) the author is trying to make
42. ..... are the people who perform it.
43. ..... are printed in italics or in parenthesis; they provide information on the setting and how the play should be performed.
44. Which of the following is an example of dialogue?
45. What is the lead part
46. The moral or lesson the author wants you to learn
47. The moment in a story when previously unknown or withheld information is revealed to the protagonist, resulting in the discovery of the truth
48. A message or insight about life
49. What is the dialogue of a drama?
50. What type of writing is divided into scenes?
51. How are drama and other forms of literature similar?
52. It introduces the conflict of the story of play.
53. Events after the climax
54. ..... are the actors or actresses performing the play.
55. Smaller parts of a play that make up an act
56. Complete the sentence. The protagonist of the tragedy is, according to Aristotle, a(n) ..... individual.
57. What is opening night
58. ..... is a type of Japanese poetry that is made up of three lines.
59. A lyric poem of 14 lines, almost always written in iambic pentameter and usually following strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme
60. An introduction associated with drama which explains facts an audience should know to understand the play
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