Drama Terms Quiz

A long speech given by one character to a group of other characters

• synopsis

• dialogue

• narrator

• monologue

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A long speech given by a character that expresses inner thoughts aloud to himself and the audience.

• soliloquy

• aside

• monologue

• dialogue

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

Aside

• A smaller section in a play

• An imaginary person who inhabits a literary work

• Speaking parts in a script

• Words spoken by the actor directly to the audience that the characters on stage cannot hear

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

• Blank Verse
• Free Verse
• Pros
• Dialogue

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

Descriptions or directions in a script that tell HOW the play is performed. Often tells the characters where to stand and what to do. What is this called?

• instructions

• orders

• stage directions

• stage instructions

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The conversation between two or more characters on stage is known as ________________________.

• monologue
• dialogue
• script
• cast of characters

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

Small sections of a play are ___________.  Each one usually takes place in a specific time and place.

• acts
• plot
• theme
• scene

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

Shakespeare often wrote in _____, which is a line of poetry containing 10 syllables that alternate, unstressed/stressed

• Blank Verse
• Iambic Pentameter
• Script Write
• Pure Genius

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

In poetry, what is "meter" ?

• Words that sound the same
• Sophisticated vocabulary
• The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
• The length of a poem

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern.

• trochee

• dactyl

• anapest

• iamb

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5