Drama quiz

is a genre of literature, better known to you as a play. Usually there is a script and actors on a stage, making it different from just a story or movie. There are two major types of plays.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Soliloquy
• protagonist

is a lighthearted play intended to amuse the audience. This Genre will usually mix together people of different social classes as well and might even use mistaken identities and misunderstandings for laughs.

• Comedy
• Tragedy
• protagonist
• tragic hero

is a serious play that ends in disaster and sorrow.

• Tragedy
• Act
• tragic hero
• tragic flaw

is a major division of a play. Most plays have three acts, but there are one act plays that happen competitively

• Act
• Scene
• tragic flaw
• Foil

shorter sections that mark the passage of time or a change in setting.

• Scene
• Setting
• Foil
• Juxtaposition

Where the action of the play is taking place.

• Setting
• Stage Directions
• Juxtaposition
• Comic Relief

Directions on how to move on stage

• Stage Directions
• Dialogue
• Comic Relief
• suspended disbelief

The lines spoken by characters in the play usually to other characters.

• Dialogue
• Aside
• suspended disbelief
• conflict

is a remark or comment a character makes to the audience or another character, which is not intended for some or all the other characters to hear.

• Aside
• Monologue
• conflict
• exposition

is a long, uninterrupted speech by one character spoken in front of and heard by the other characters.

• Monologue
• Soliloquy
• exposition
• complications