Dramatic Techniques

Choose the correct dramatic device.

A clash between people, values, or ideas.

• conflict

• stage battle

• context

• emotion

Choose the correct dramatic device.

The audience knows something that one or more of the characters in a play does not know.

• theatrical secret

• red herring

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

Choose the correct dramatic device.

A speech given by one character who is speaking to other characters on stage.

• monologue

• dialogue

• soliloquy

• aside

which of these are examples of non-verbal dramatic technique

• dialogue

• lighting

• direct address

• stage directions

which of these are examples of verbal dramatic technique

• aside

• direct address

• facial expression

• dialogue

An introduction to a literary work is a...

• epilogue

• malapropism

• prologue

• crisis

device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story is called

• forewarning

• foregrounding

• foreboding

• foreshadowing

a symbolic image or idea that appears frequently in a story; can be symbols, sounds, actions, ideas, or words is a

• foil

• metonym

• motif

• synechdoche

device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story is called

• forewarning

• foregrounding

• foreboding

• foreshadowing

The conversation of characters in a literary work is called __________

• Expectation

• Epilogue

• dialogue

• romance