Drama Review

Drama Review

• Act: A major division in a play. 

• Aside: Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, but not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play. 

• Character: An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. 

• Comedy: A dramatic work in which the results in a successful or happy conclusion. 

• Conflict: There is no drama without conflict. The conflict between opposing forces in a play can be external (between characters) or internal (within a character) and is usually resolved by the end of the play. 

• Dialogue: The conversation of characters in a literary work. 

• Dramatic Irony: A device in which a character holds a position or has an expectation reversed or fulfilled in a way that the character did not expect but that the audience or readers have anticipated because their knowledge of events or individuals is more complete than the character’s. 

• Irony: In general, a term with a range of meanings, all of them involving some sort of discrepancy or incongruity between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant

• Monologue: A speech by a single character without another character's response.

• Scene: A traditional segment in a play. 

• Soliloquy: A speech meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage 

• Stage Direction: A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (as well as actors and directors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play. 

• Theme: A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work. 

• Situational irony is when the outcome of a situation is different than our expectations.

  
  

• Tragedy: A type of drama in which the characters experience reversal of fortune, usually for the worse

• Tragic flaw: A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. 

• Tragic hero: A privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and/or fate, suffers a fall from a higher station in life into suffering. 

• Verbal irony occurs when a person of character says one thing but means another.

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A play that shows downfall of main character, or hero; this hero may be an admirable person with a flaw that brings about their destruction.

• Scene

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Set

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A play that features ordinary people in funny or ridiculous situations; typically a happy ending.

• Scene

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Act

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Lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

• Dialogue

• Stage Direction

• Set

• Prop

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Dramas are made up of acts and scenes.

• True
• False

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"Show the changes in the settings overtime"

• Scenes
• Acts
• Dialogue
• Stage Directions

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"The parts that a play is divided into"

• Acts
• Scenes
• Stage Directions
• Dialogue

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"Tells the actors where to go, how to move, and when to say their lines"

• Stage directions
• Setting
• Scenery
• Dialogue

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"A written work that tells a story through action and speech and is meant to be acted on a stage"

• Drama
• Act
• Scene
• Playwright

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This video is an example of

• a monologue

• dialogue

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This video is an example of

• a monologue

• dialogue

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This video is an example of:

• a monologue

• dialogue

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This video is an example of:

• a monologue

• dialogue

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This video is an example of:

• a tragedy

• a comedy

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This video is an example of:

• a comedy

• a tragedy

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This video is an example of what type of irony?

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

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This is an example of what type of irony?

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

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This video is an example of what type of irony?

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

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A pilot with a fear of heights

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• none of the above

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In the movie, "Toy Story", human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move but the audience is.

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• none of the above

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A man looked out of the window to see the storm intensify. He turned to his friend and said “Wonderful weather we’re having!”

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• none of the above