Quiz on Drama Elements

Full-length dramas are divided into shorter sections called:

• Scenes

• Characters

• Stage directions

• Acts

The plot's moment of greatest tension is called:

• Climax

• Resolution

• Theme

• Playwright

An insight about life that a play conveys is known as:

• Theme

• Plot

• Drama

• Conflict

The words the actor speaks in a play are called:

• Dialogue

• Script

• Stage directions

• Conflict

Fictional people are referred to as:

• Characters

• Plot

• Stage directions

• Conflict

The writer of a drama is called:

• Playwright

• Theme

• Script

• Dialogue

A series of actions that build to a climax is called:

• Plot

• Dialogue

• Acts

• Setting

A story that is performed for an audience is called:

• Drama

• Setting

• Conflict

• Playwright

The element of drama that refers to the time or place in which the play is set is:

• Setting

• Plot

• Climax

• Theme

The element that describes the characters and setting in a play is:

• Stage directions

• Conflict

• Acts

• Dialogue