Drama

Question 1

What is a drama?…

Answer 1

something performed by actors for an audience told through characters words or action

Question 2

What is an act?…

Answer 2

The main divisions of drama

Question 3

Scene

Answer 3

Smaller divisions of drama

Question 4

Setting

Answer 4

Place and time of an action

Question 5

Dialogue

Answer 5

Lines spoken by characters

Question 6

Stage directions

Answer 6

Directions for characters how to speak or act sound lighting and props

Question 7

Plot

Answer 7

Events what’re the characters try to solve a problem or attain a goal

Question 8

Exposition

Answer 8

Introduces characters settings and conflict

Question 9

Rising action

Answer 9

Events that lead to the climax at its peak

Question 10

Climax

Answer 10

is the turning point of the plot that leads to the resolution

Question 11

Falling action

Answer 11

Part of play that leads to the resolution

Question 12

Resolution

Answer 12

How the conflict is or is not resolved

Question 13

Dialogue

Answer 13

Lines spoken between 2 or more people in a drama

Question 14

POV

Answer 14

A characters view or perspective

Question 15

Monologue

Answer 15

A speech by 1 actor

Question 16

Soliloquy

Answer 16

A speech where a character reveals their thoughts

Question 17

Aside

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A comment made to the audience and is not heard by the other characters

Question 18

Dramatic irony

Answer 18

When the audience knows more than the characters know

Question 19

Verbal irony

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When a character says the opposite of what they mean

Question 20

Theme

Answer 20

Is the central message of a play

Question 21

Idiom

Answer 21

Doesn’t really mean it

Question 22

Cast

Answer 22

The performers in an play

Question 24

Adage

Answer 24

An old saying