ELA- Drama Pre assessment

How is drama different from poetry and prose?

• It isn't written down.

• It uses verse.

• It's meant to be performed.

The five elements of drama are: plot, setting, character, mood, and...

• Theme

• Location

• Scenery

• Budget

____ is the arrangement of the incidents that take place in a play.

• Scenery

• Characters

• Plot

• Conflict

The beginning of a play introduces the audience to who, what , where, when, and why through revealing information called the __________.

• Plot

• Setting

• Mood

• Exposition

The turning point of the drama, or the ______, is composed of a series of complications or conflicts.

• Narrator

• Climax

• Dialogue

• Exposition

The overall meaning that the playwright wishes to get across to the audience is known as the ______. This give the play purpose.

• Climax

• Dialogue

• Theme

• Conflict

Select the type(s) of dramas:

• Comedy

• Action/Adventure

• Tragedy

• Melodrama

• Thriller

Plays are broken up into different _______.

• Chapters

• Acts

• Paragraphs

• Stanzas

Tell me one thing you know about dramas.

Give me one example of a drama that you have seen.