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Drama Quiz 14 (42 MCQs)

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1. The central idea or life lesson the writer intends to share with the reader.
2. The person who wrote the play
3. When one character is speaking for an extended amount of time to other characters on stage this is called a
4. Which of these is an example of a stage direction?
5. The conversations between characters in a drama or literary work.
6. What does music provide during a play?
7. Exposes human folly and aims to correct it; ridicules human weaknesses
8. Which is the correct term for "the characters in a drama" ?
9. Hamilton performing an extended speech alone on stage would be an example of a .....
10. Often italicized or set off with parentheses, ..... are instructions about how to perform or act out the drama.
11. The conversation of characters in a literary work is called .....
12. The directions, or words, in parenthesis that show the actions or feelings that the characters are supposed to show. These directions are called .....
13. A joke that results from multiple word meanings or rhyming sounds, e.g., A horse is a very stable animal.
14. What is an aside?
15. Complete the sentence. To make an audience laugh, authors of comedies use all of the following except .....
16. In Scene 4, the Giver says, "We got rid of them when we embraced Sameness." As used in that sentence, embraced most closely means .....
17. Writing in paragraph form is known as .....
18. The written text of a play is called a .....
19. Excessive pride or arrogance that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy
20. A 14-line poem, typically about love or romance, that contains three quatrains (sets of four lines) and a rhyming couplet. Written in iambic pentameter, and follow the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
21. According to Aristotle, what two feelings do successful tragedies arouse is the audience?
22. This refers to the time and place of the drama.
23. Name two elements of a drama that you DO NOT FIND in poetry OR prose.
24. In poetry, the organization of images, ideas, words, and lines
25. Which of the following statements CANNOT describe a theme in The Giver?
26. What is defined as a playwright's written instructions about how actors should move and behave; explain how the stage should look and where props (items used in the play) are located.
27. Characters, conflict, and setting are .....
28. ..... are the units of action in a drama.
29. Topics are usually summed up in..
30. Where would you look to find the names of the characters?
31. Gods and goddesses are part of these stories.
32. What are drama stories?
33. Why does a playwright include stage directions in a script?
34. Why study these terms?
35. What option would be considered a form of props?
36. What is it called in a drama where there is written directions that tell actors what to do and how to feel?
37. This is the turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of the greatest tension in the play.
38. Italicized comments that identify parts of the setting or the use of props or costumes, gives further information about a character, or provide background information
39. ..... is a form of drama that has a happy ending, and often features normal characters in funny situations.
40. Complete the sentence:Spectacle is created in the theater through all of the following except .....
41. A character who contrasts with or is the opposite of another character.
42. ..... are the items on the stage that help create the setting.
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