Drama Vocabulary Test

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1. Name the parts of a play. Part I is given to you. What comes next? Act I: Exposition

Answer explanation

Act I: exposition

Act 2: rising action

Act 3: climax

Act 4: falling action

Act 5: resolution

2. These are instructions for the actors and stage crew, usually in italics.

• stage directions
• transgression
• resolution
• slating

3. These are a group of characters in Greek tragedy (and later in drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.

• procure
• banishment
• sequester
• Chorus

4. Shakespeare loves to drive people away or force them to leave their home by _________ them.

• bequeath
• wayward
• foil
• banishing

5. The girl was told she was very __________, gloomy and weary.

• emancipate
• melancholy
• grievance
• ambiguities

6. They pretend to be more superior than others, often commenting on issues of right and wrong in regards to other's actions.

• anguish
• languish
• moralize
• wayward

7. The plants _______ and die if they are not cared for properly.

• laugh
• thrive
• languish
• stretch

8. He was only there because he didn't want to hear her bickering for the whole week about how he didn't attend her mother's charity event. Going on _______ was better than anything else.

• sufferance
• nuisance
• impatience
• resistance

9. Although Treyon wants to sign the contract, he needs to understand the ________ language of it first.

• eventful
• easy
• boring
• tedious