MS Dramatic Structure Vocabulary Test

What is the highest point of tension in the play or the turning point?

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Theme

What is the dramatic opposition of the protagonist with society, with his or her peers, or with him or herself (the problem in the play) called?

• Climax

• Exposition

• Conflict

• Inciting Incident

What is the final resolution of the conflict in a plot (when the problem is solved and the resolution occurs) called?

• Inciting Incident

• Exposition

• Denouement

• Rising Action

What is the information that gives you an idea about what has happened before the play began and what is happening as the play begins, also known the backstory of the play, called?

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Exposition

What is the action following the climax of a play (when the tension has decreased and the story is moving towards the resolution) called?

• Resolution

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Exposition

What is the first event that starts the conflict of the play (the event to which all other actions in the play can be traced) called?

• Falling Action

• Denouement

• Inciting Incident

• Theme

What is the story of a play from beginning to end called?

• Plot

• Theme

• Rising Action

• Climax

What is the end of a plot when the conflict is resolved called?

• Exposition

• Plot

• Theme

• Resolution

What are complications to the plot line that build tension up to the climax called?

• Resolution

• Theme

• Rising Action

• Conflict

What is the underlying message or meaning of a play or other piece of literature called?

• Plot

• Denouement

• Theme

• Conflict