Poetry, Prose, and Dramas

Which of the following is an element of a drama?

• Consists of dialogue between 2 or more people

• Written to be performed before an audience

• Narration is needed to describe a scene

• A script is written to inform actors of what to say

What do you call the people acting in a drama (play)?

In a drama, who reads the lines of the script?

• Actors

• Narrators

• Characters

• Audience

An act or a scene is an element of what type of writing?

• Poetry

• Drama

• Prose

• All of the above

Similes and metaphors are most often found in what type of writing?

• Prose

• Poetry

• Drama

• Informative

A drama is different from a poem in which ways?

• A drama has acts and scenes instead of stanzas.

• An act or scene is a smaller section of a play while a smaller section of a poem is a stanza.

• Dramas do not include rhyme as often as poetry.

• A drama includes lines made of stanzas and a poem includes a script.

Prose

• is written in sentences one after the other.

• contains groups of sentences called paragraphs.

• may be organized in chapters.

• includes stories, news articles, and magazine articles.

Talking back and forth between two characters is called...

• narration

• directions

• dialogue

• stanzas

Stage directions can be found in ...

• prose

• poetry

• dramas

• opinion writing

Which of the following is an element of poetry?

• Repetition

• Stanzas

• Rhyme Scheme

• Paragraphs