Introduction to Drama

Drama is unlike poetry and fiction in all of the following ways except:

• drama uses language to represent real life

• drama does not employ narrative or the use of a narrator

• drama does not require a formal or informal shape

• drama allows for the impersonation of characters on a stage

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Which of the following instructions is not included in a playwright's stage directions?

• facial and vocal expressions

• gesture and "body language"

• stage appearance and lighting

• interactions with the audience and response to applause

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A soliloquy is a type of monologue designed to:

• speak softly and slowly

• attract the audience's attention to a specific character

• allow a character to reveal a deep insight or emotion

• embarrass a character for forgetting his or her lines

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In drama as in fiction, a round character displays for the following characteristics except:

• a development in awareness

• the reluctance to make a choice

• a keen insight

• moral capacity

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What is the major function of a "foil" in drama?

• to provide comic relief

• to symbolize an important element in the plot

• to compare and/or contrast key characteristics of the protagonist

• to serve as a double for another character

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The Freytag pyramid refers to:

• the order characters appear on stage

• the traditional five-staged structure of plays

• the developmental stages of a protagonist

• the sequential structure of stage directions

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The term "catastrophe" used to label the end of a play is often misinterpreted because its association with the concept of:

• finality

• calamity

• disability

• irreparability

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Dramatist may set a specific tone through the use of dramatic irony or:

• a character's undeserved misfortune

• a character's handicap suffered unjustly

• a character's incomplete or erroneous understanding of a specific event or circumstance

• a character's divine misfortune

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As used in drama, what is the best example of an allegory?

• a ruler's such as a king's speech

• the destruction of a setting by a natural event

• the crafting of an innovative stage feature

• the staged sacrifice of a character for the good of mankind

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Chairs, tables, beds, flower vases, trees, and other objects can be used as _____________________ to mark scene changes.

• movable properties

• obstacles

• distractors

• minor characters

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