Poems, Plays, and Prose

Poems, Plays, and Prose

Window D

Multiple Choice

What best describes what kind of writing this is and why?

• It is a play because it has different characters in it.

• It is a story because it has a beginning, middle, and end.

• It is a poem because it is split up into lines, verses, and stanzas.

• It is an article because it presents information.

What sentence from the passage BEST shows that this is a play?

Multiple Choice

What sentence from the passage best shows that this is a play?

• The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished.

• Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?

• And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?

• [Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, Algernon enters.]

What sentence from the passage BEST shows that this is a play?

Multiple Choice

Which of these best explains why this passage is a play?

• It has stage directions to tell the actors how to perform their parts.

• It has many different characters in it.

• It is written in complete sentences instead of verses.

• It does very little to describe the setting in which it takes place.

Multiple Choice

What kind of writing is normally broken up into stanzas and verses?

• Stories

• Plays

• Poems

• Prose

Multiple Choice

Out of poems, stories, and plays, which of these things are usually ONLY found in plays?

• setting

• stage directions

• characters

• dialogue