STAAR Review ELA

A drama is intended to be __________________ for an audience.

• performed

• comedy

• tragedy

• fun

A drama, or a play is a passage that tells a story using _______________ characters say to each other.

• songs
• lines
• books
• jokes

Stage directions are the words written that appear in parentheses throughout the play and these words tell the characters how to _________________.

• do the play
• use dialogue
• act
• sing

There are four ingredients in a good Drama.  They include:

• actors, script, acts and scenes
• stage directions, plays, singing and dancing
• characters, cast, setting and drama
• dialogue, setting, conflict and plot

poetry uses rhythm

• true

• false

which one uses stage directions

• fiction

• poetry

• drama

• all of the above

which uses dialogue

• fiction

• poetry

• drama

• none of the above

which one uses characters

• drama

• fiction

• poetry

• all of the above

Free verse poetry does not have...

• stanzas
• plot or conflict
• rhyme or rhythm
• serious topic

All are found in poetry except...

• rhyme scheme
• rhythm
• stanza
• paragraphs