Literary Techniques - Play

Question 1

Characterisation

Answer 1

The process through which an author reveals a character’s personality.

Question 2

Stage directions

Answer 2

An instruction written in the script of a play that gives direction to the actors or information about the scenery.

Question 3

Dialogue

Answer 3

The exchange of spoken words between two or more character.

Question 4

Lighting

Answer 4

Lighting for the stage involves manipulating intensity, colour, direction and movement, to influence the mood, focus, modeling and visibility.

Question 5

Sound effects

Answer 5

Any artificial reproduction of sound or sounds intended to accompany action and supply realism.

Question 6

Music

Answer 6

Used to accompany the action or to separate the scenes of a play.

Question 7

Stage positions

Answer 7

The positions and movement that actors perform.

Question 8

Props

Answer 8

An object used on stage or screen by actors during a performance.

Question 9

Set

Answer 9

An arrangement of scenery and props to represent the place where a play is enacted.

Question 10

Denouement

Answer 10

The resolution of the issue of a complicated plot, often occurs in an epilogue.

Question 11

Dramatic monologue

Answer 11

A long excerpt in a play that reveals a character’s thoughts and feelings.

Question 12

Farce

Answer 12

A literary genre and type of comedy that makes use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience.

Question 13

Motif

Answer 13

An image, sound, action, or other figure that has a symbolic significance, and contributes toward the development of a theme.

Question 14

Soliloquy

Answer 14

A device often used in drama when a character speaks to themselves, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving the illusion of unspoken reflections.

Question 15

Structure

Answer 15

The sequence of a play that follows a structure of orientation, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, resolution.