Drama Unit Practice

What is a playwright?

• someone who writes a poem

• the voice of a poem

• someone who writes a drama meant to be performed on stage

• someone who writes a novel meant to be read out loud.

What does the word momentum most likely mean in reference to a story?

• speed of the plot

• the actions a character takes

• choices of a character

• the speed of the climax

Use your "Analyzing Dialogue and and Incidents in Stories and Dramas" to help, highlight, and answer questions. (Highlight on the first page.) What best describes dialogue?

• when characters perform an action

• stage directions in italics

• conversation between characters

• a choice of tone for a story by the author

Use your "Analyzing Dialogue and and Incidents in Stories and Dramas" to help, highlight, and answer questions. (Write the correct answer in the top box on the first page.) What does the dialogue in the picture on page 61 of your packet reveal about the characters?

• The woman isn't paying attention to her surroundings, while the man is aware of what is happening.

• The cat is taking up attention from the humans.

• Neither character pays attention to what happens.

• The man isn't paying attention to his surroundings, while the woman is.

Use your "Analyzing Dialogue and and Incidents in Stories and Dramas" to help, highlight, and answer questions. (Highlight on the first page in the bottom paragraph.) What should you look for, as a reader, of dialogue?

• Connections between what the characters observe and what they say

• Connections between two or more characters

• Connections between what characters say and what they do.

• Connections v. feeling disconnected

What is one difference between dialogue written for novels/ stories vs. in a drama or play? (There is more than one correct answer.)

• Dialogue in plays is written in italics.

• Dialogue in novels/ stories is in quotation marks.

• Dialogue written in novels is written in italics.

• Dialogue in plays is in quotation marks.

• Dialogue in plays has the character's name and then a colon.

Use your "Analyzing Dialogue and and Incidents in Stories and Dramas" to help, highlight, and answer questions. (Write on the in the box on page 62, and there is more than one correct answer.) What does this script reveal about Tor?

• Tor is considered highlight intelligent.

• Tor is simple, and doesn't speak much English.

• He is unfamiliar with modern customs.

• Tor has spent a lot of time outside of a lab.

• Tor hasn't spent a lot of time outside of a lab.

Use your "Analyzing Dialogue and and Incidents in Stories and Dramas" to help, highlight, and answer questions. Why does the playwright for "The Ascent of Man" on page 62 most likely limit this script to one half of a scene?

• to limit the number of characters speaking

• to reveal important information about Tor.

• to include multiple stage directions revealing more about other characters

• To show Olivia and Brett are protagonists in the story

Use your "Analyzing Dialogue and and Incidents in Stories and Dramas" to help, highlight, and answer questions. (Highlight the answer on page 62.) For what reason does the playwright/ author include the "Center for Advanced Studies"?

• To give the setting to the reader/ audience

• To reveal who the important characters will be

• To show Tor is trapped in a lab

• To show how the characters will go back in time

Use your "Analyzing Dialogue and and Incidents in Stories and Dramas" to help, highlight, and answer questions. Look at page 63. PART A: Read the dictionary entry:

exaggerate:

1. (1) to push the limits of the truth

2. (2) to increase the size of something in an abnormal way

3. (3) to use as a strategy in a speech or writing

4. (4) to show sarcasm through speech or actions

5. Which dictionary entry best matches the meaning of exaggerate as used at line 8 on page 63?

• definition 1

• definition 2

• definition 3

• definition 4