Parts of a Play

What is a statement to the audience that is not heard by other characters?

• aside

• dialogue

• monologue

• verbal irony

What are directions telling characters how to speak or act; directions telling how sound, lighting, and props are used; important details about what is happening in the play?

• setting

• act

• scene

• stage directions

What is it called when the audience knows more than one or more of the characters?

• verbal irony

• aside

• dramatic irony

• idiom

What is spoken or written conversation between two characters in literature?

• idiom

• dialogue

• aside

• soliloquy

It analyzes the set and the props, blocking, lighting, sound, costumes and the make up of the play.

• Performance and direction

• Plot summary

• Introduction

• Design Elements

Aside

• A smaller section in a play

• An imaginary person who inhabits a literary work

• Speaking parts in a script

• Words spoken by the actor directly to the audience

Stage Direction

• Written in italics and enclosed in brackets

• A playwright's descriptive comments

• Provides information about dialogue, setting, and action of the play

• All the above

Lines

• Speaking parts in a play

• The document that contains the story

• A synonym for the word "drama"

• Interruption of the play's timeline

A story that is meant to be acted out in front of an audience. It is usually performed on a stage.

• drama/play

• poem

• genre

• narrative

What is an Act of a play?

• It's the script of a play.

• Small sections of a play, usually within multiple scenes.

• A major section of a play, usually made up of several scenes.

• It is the part of the play that tells the audience the setting.