Dramatic Elements

Question 0

Scene

Answer 0

Each time the setting in an act changes, the scene changes.

Question 1

Act

Answer 1

A major unit if action in a play, comparable to a chapter in a book.

Question 2

Aside

Answer 2

An aside is a remark that is spoken in an undertone and is meant only for the audience

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

Struggle between opposing forces that is the basis of the plot.

Question 4

Drama

Answer 4

Literature meant to be performed for an audience

Question 5

Mood

Answer 5

How the characters feel about their situation

Question 6

Tone

Answer 6

How the author feels about his characters and subject matter

Question 7

Chorus

Answer 7

Narrator

Question 8

Plot

Answer 8

Sequence of action in a story

Question 9

Setting

Answer 9

The time and place

Question 10

Soliloquy

Answer 10

Speech one character makes alone on the stage

Question 11

Monologue

Answer 11

A speech one character makes that I’d directed to other characters

Question 12

Symbol

Answer 12

Something small representing something large

Question 13

Theme

Answer 13

Authors message

Question 14

Tragedy

Answer 14

A drama that starts in calm and ends in violence

Question 15

Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Answer 15

The audience tacitly agrees to set aside disbelief

Question 16

Dramatic Irony

Answer 16

When the audience knows something that the characters don’t