Drama Quiz 33 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who is the person who tells the story?
2. Groups of lines/verses in a poem are called .....
3. What is an additional element of drama?
4. Lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience (Polonius-"Though this be madness yet there is method in it" -Hamlet
5. Acts are divided into
6. What is poetry?
7. Who is the person who tells the story in a play?
8. Read the following passage from the end of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.Mama:Yeah ..... they something all right, my children ..... Ruth:Yeah ..... they're something. Let's go, Lena ..... Walter:Y'all come on! These people charges by the hour, you know!Mama:All right, honey ..... go on down. I be down directly.RUTH hesitates, then exits. MAMA stands, at last alone in the living room, her plant on the table before her as the lights start to come down. She looks around at all the walls and ceilings and suddenly, despite herself, while the children call below, a great heaving thing rises in her and she puts her fist to her mouth to stifle it, takes a final desperate look, pulls her coat about her, pats her hat and goes out. The lights dim down. The door opens and she comes back in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last time.What do you learn from the stage directions in this passage that you DON'T learn from the dialogue?
9. In drama, who is the person who provides the audience with information about what is happening in the play?
10. Person, animal, or thing in the story
11. What is a common way for a comedy to end?
12. It is the place and time where and when an event happens.
13. What is prose?
14. Sets of bracketed information that tell what the stage looks like and how the characters should move and speak
15. Sophocles:
16. Playwright's comments that provide information about the dialogue, setting, props, costumes, lighting, sound effects, and action of a play
17. When the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know
18. A comment made to the audience or to another character which other characters on stage supposedly don't hear
19. A ..... are the actors in a drama.
20. These objects are used to bring the drama to life. What am I?