Features of a play script GRADE 4

What is a play script?

• An Advert

• A piece of writing in the form of drama

• A letter

Which feature belongs to a play script?

• title

• dialogues

• stage direction

• all of the above

Stage direction should be...

• not written in the parenthesis or brackets

• with the character's name

• written in the parenthesis or brackets

• written as character's dialogue.

The play script should be written mainly in _____________ tense.

• present

• past

• future

• present progressive

Which statement is dialogue correctly?

• Mark; I don't like it!

• Mark: I don't like it!

• Mark' I don't like it!

• Mark- I don't like it!

Which punctuation mark should be used in a plays cript after the character's name?

• full stop

• comma

• semi-colon

• colon

Which statement is written properly?

• walking slow, Michael is singing.

• (walking slowly) Michael is singing.

• (walking slowly) Michael was singing.

• all of the above

After the rain, the entire park was totally flooded. John and Luis are looking from the window of their condo unit.

The underlined expression is known as...

• setting

• character

• stage direction

• dialogue

Fill in the gap. Stage directions are enclosed in _________.

• speech marks

• full stops

• colons

• brackets

What do stage directions tell the actors?

• how many scenes there are in an act

• how to speak the dialogues and behave on stage

• the names of other characters in the play

• the meaning of the unfamiliar words in the script