Elements of Drama Quiz

What is a division within a play, much like chapters of a novel?

• Act

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Aside

What is the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words?

• Act

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Aside

What is a reference to a person, place, idea, or event in history or literature?

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Aside

• Blank verse

What is a short speech made by a character to the audience that other characters cannot hear?

• Allusion

• Aside

• Blank verse

• Cast

What is poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter?

• Blank verse

• Cast

• Chorus

• Comedy

What refers to all the people who act in a play, movie, or show?

• Cast

• Chorus

• Comedy

• Dialogue

What is a group of characters who comment on the action of a play without participation in it?

• Chorus

• Comedy

• Dialogue

• Drama

What is a humorous work of drama where things work out happily in the end?

• Comedy

• Dialogue

• Drama

• Dramatic irony

What is a conversation between two or more characters?

• Dialogue

• Drama

• Dramatic irony

• Foil

What is a work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience?

• Drama

• Dramatic irony

• Foil

• Monologue