Theatre and Literature Quiz

What is the term for an actor or actress?

• Script

• Thespian

• Dialogue

• Scene

What is the written text of a play called?

• Act

• Scene

• Script

• Role

What is a large section of a play, like a chapter in a book, called?

• Scene

• Act

• Dialogue

• Monologue

What is a smaller section within an act, usually showing a specific location or time, called?

• Scene

• Role

• Comedy

• Tragedy

What is the term for the character that an actor plays in a show?

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Role

• Aside

What is the term for the conversations between characters in a play?

• Dialogue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Props

What is a long speech by one character to other characters or the audience called?

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Aside

• Comedy

What is a speech where a character talks to themselves, sharing their thoughts with the audience, called?

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Aside

• Tragedy

What is a short comment or speech that a character says to the audience, but the other characters on stage can't hear it, called?

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Aside

• Soliloquy

What is a play that is funny and usually has a happy ending called?

• Tragedy

• Comedy

• History

• Scene