Drama Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. The play or drama is organized in .....
2. A "subchapter" in a piece of drama is a(n)
3. Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
4. Which of the following elements are only in drama?
5. Which of the following are quotation marks?
6. The following are the examples of performance elements, except .....
7. The written instructions in the play indicating movement, position, sound effects, prop placement, and lighting.
8. How an actor dresses to express the personality, era, and type of character that is being portrayed is called the:
9. Which of these is NOT an example of Prose?
10. It introduces the moment of insight, discovery or revelation of the character after the falling action.
11. Where the action of the play takes place; has three literal walls and one invisible wall.
12. Which of the following is NOT a role of a STAGE MANAGER?
13. It is a piece of writing in the form of drama composed of dialogue, stage directions and instructions to the actors and director.
14. It is the effects an audience hears during performance to communicate character, context, or environment
15. A subdivision of an act with a fixed setting and continuous time frame.
16. A person who writes the play is called .....
17. A piece of writing done through dialogue
18. In the Transition Period, there was an increase in technical skill, and playwrights began to create dramas more focused on ..... and ..... subject matter than tragic emotion.
19. Speech between characters in a play:
20. Which god were people worshipping during the festival when these plays were performed?
21. He was the first to write about the essential elements of drama more than 2, 000 years ago.
22. "Acts" in a play/drama can be compared to .....
23. ..... are the sets of bracketed information that describe the scenery and how the characters should move and speak
24. Type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better; things work out happily in the end
25. A character or force against which another character struggles is called the .....
26. Conversation between two or more characters in a play is called
27. The sequence of events in a story or drama is called the
28. Which of these is NOT an example of an allusion?
29. The most important lesson in the play that the playwright wants the audience to learn-
30. What is the cast of characters
31. The text of the play is called the ..... It includes the dialogue the actors speak and stage directions.
32. When does the climax occur in a story?
33. A serious play with a sad or disastrous ending
34. What is the special form that a play is written in?
35. What are rhyming words?
36. Reasons for a characters behavior.
37. This refers to the words written by the playwright and spoken by the characters in the play.
38. The Middle Ages drama is taken from ..
39. Refers to two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.
40. ..... is another word for set.
41. The person who portrays a character in a performance.
42. The elements of a drama interact to create
43. A comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar
44. What is the conflict of a drama?
45. A drama is intended to be ..... for an audience.
46. This is a division of a play or an act of a play where the action takes place in one location without a break in time.
47. Furniture or objects placed on stage during a performance are called .....
48. A short speech at the end of the play is .....
49. The character against the protagonist in a drama is called .....
50. What are the lines of the text the character speaks in the play called?
51. A work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience
52. The action or main events of a story or script/play/drama
53. Notes in a script of a play to tell the actors when and where to come on stage, move around, or go off stage
54. Who are the characters in a drama?
55. When a character speaks in order to be heard by the audience but not, supposedly, by the other characters.
56. The spoken words of the characters. What am I?
57. In parenthesis or italics to give extra information to the actors.
58. Complete the sentence. The audience of a comedy learns the error of its behaviors due to the ..... behavior of the actors.
59. A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast
60. An unhappy ending