Elements of Drama

__________ indicate what the actors are supposed to do:

• Stage directions

• Exposition

• Dramatic irony

• Asides

A_____________ is the same as a soliloquy.

• dialogue

• monologue

• script

• tragedy

Other actors are not meant to hear what an actor is saying during ________.

• an aside

• an act

• a monologue

• a soliloquy

 A character can best be defined as ______.

• a. A real person who acts in a play.

• b. The people who talk in a book.

• c. Any person, animal, creature, being, or thing in a story.

• d. Only the people in a story.

The two main characters in a story are the _______.

• a. Protagonist and antagonist

• b. Protagonist and oppotagonist

• c. Proctor and antagonist

• d. Proctor and oppotagonist

Loki is known mainly as the villain of the Thor movies. However, he finally turns around and fights alongside the good guys, and even sacrifices his life while facing Thanos. His character is a description of a FLAT character.

• True

• False

How is drama different from other kinds of fiction?

• Drama can have only one setting. Other kinds of fiction can have many settings.

• Drama has a plot. Other kinds of fiction use monologues instead of plots.

• Drama has more characters than other kinds of fiction.

• Drama is written to be performed by actors for an audience.

What is the term for when the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not?

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• OxyMoron

• Aside

A __________ is a long, uninterrupted speech delivered by a character to other characters who are onstage but remain silent .

• monologue

• soliloquy

• aside

A brief remark in which a character express private thoughts to the audience rather than to other characters is called an _____________.

• monologue

• aside

• soliloquy