Theatre Quiz - Drama Vocabulary

Antagonist

• Opposes the protagonist

• main character

• Often is the villain

• All of the above

Articulation

• volume of voice

• the formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech

• clearly projecting sounds

• pitch of voice

Character

• an animal role in a story

• characteristics of a role in a story/play/movie

• actress, a male or female person who performs a role in a play, work of drama, or theatre

• performs a role

Climax

• low point of something

• resolution to a problem in a story

• the most intense, exciting, or important point of something

• beginning of a story

Collaboration

• the action of working with someone to produce or create something

• only used in movies

• working as an individual on a project

• a high point in a story

Conflict

• main character in a story

• any type of problem that keeps the goal from being achieved

• conversation between two people

• achieving a goal

Context

• environment, situation, and circumstances

• problem to be worked through

• critiquing a scene

• one persons speech

Critique

• information given to assist in making a decision

• describes a character

• main character in a story, play, book, etc

• typically refers to careful judgement in which someone gives an opinion

Denouement

• the beginning of a story

• The outcome of the main problem in a drama

• the style of speech used by a character/author/etc

• main characters action

Dialogue

• Conversation among characters

• Lines spoken by one character

• Play

• an event that happens