Drama Basics

What is a Drama?

• A poem

• A story that has to be performed.

• A technical text

• A short story

What the characters say to one another is called____________.

• chatter

• joking

• dialogue

• singing

What do you call the list of characters in the Drama?

• setting

• scene

• act

• cast of characters

What do stage directions usually have around them?

• parentheses

• commas

• italics

• question marks

Acts are made up of different what?

• people

• scenes

• robots

• words

When reading a Drama out loud you should also read the stage directions.

• True

• False

Put a check next to all the elements of a Drama.

• Act

• Scene

• Stage Directions

• Stanza

Which word in this question is written in italics?

• word

• question

• italics

• written

In a Drama, what do you call the person that is telling the story?

• The character

• The poet

• The narrator

• The author

The ___________________ tells us how a narrator or character in a story feels about something.

• prefix

• main idea

• prediction

• point of view