Dramatic Techniques

A solitary speech in which the actor is speaking uninterruptedly and the other characters may or may not be listening.

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Dialogue

• Imagery

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

The audience feelings being purged and released at the end of a tragedy is called

• anagnorisis

• catharsis

• pathos

• bathos

Choose the correct dramatic device.

• conflict

• stage battle

• context

• emotion

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

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 monologue is ______________

• A speech by a single character without another character's response.

• The point in the story of a play where the plot begins.

• A dialogue between two major characters in a play.

• A good TV show

An aside is 

• Character speaks directly to audience.

• A speech at the beginning of a play.

• A conversation between two or more characters in a play.