Play and Poem Vocabulary Practice

1. What is a sequence of continuous action in a play?

• A. scenes
• B. narrator
• C. dialogue
• D. setting

2. What provides the audience with information about what is happening in the play?

• A. scenes
• B. narrator
• C. script
• D. verse

3. What are the lines the characters speak in the play?

• A. script
• B. narrator
• C. dialogue
• D. stanza

4. What is the special form that a play in written in?

• A. verse
• B. script
• C. stanza
• D. rhyme

5. What has several verses that are grouped together in a poem?

• A. verse
• B. rhyme
• C. meter
• D. stanza

6. What is given at the beginning of a play and tells who the characters are?

• A. cast of characters
• B. stage directions
• C. verse
• D. dialogue

7. What tells when and where the story takes place?

• A. scenes
• B. narrator
• C. setting
• D. dialogue

8. What tells the actor what to do? (They appear in parentheses.)

• A. cast of characters
• B. setting
• C. verse
• D. stage directions

9. What is a line of a poem?

• A. stanza
• B. verse
• C. rhyme
• D. meter

10. What repeats the same ending sound in different words?

• A. stanza
• B. line
• C. setting
• D. rhyme