Introduction to English Drama

A function of drama that includes a hidden message to influence people is ....

• Propaganda

• Expression

• Cultural Values

• Entertainment

Drama is originally from a Greek word ...

• draein

• dram

• drum

• dranie

Non-verbal means in dramatic or performing arts are ...

• gestures and stage

• facial expression and monologue

• script and stage direction

• dialogue and stage

Recording an event in the past is the function of drama in term of ...

• performance

• expression

• historical value

• propaganda

The two famous festivals in which both tragedy and comedy were born are ...

• City Dionysia

• Lenaia

• Dithyramb

• Gamelion

Three greatest Athenian tragic playwrights are ...

• Sophocles

• Chionides

• Aeschylus

• Euripides

A kind of irony in which what happens is the opposite of what is desired to happen in humorous way is ...

• situational irony

• cosmic irony

• dramatic irony

• tragic dilemma

A part of performance in Greek tragedy when the drama is concluded and the actors exit the stage ...

• the prologue

• the exposition

• the exodos

• the parados

Comedy is from a Greek word "komodia" which means ...

• a song of revels

• to do and to act

• a song to act

• goat song

The Old (Attic) comedy is the era of comedy that employed most stock characters and represented by its famous dramatist.

• FALSE

• TRUE