Drama STAAR Review

You should skip the stage directions during reading a drama selection.

• True

• False

Which text features are always present in a drama or play?

• Characters, Title, Scenes, Stanzas

• Characters, Scenes, Lines, Stage Directions

• Characters, Lines, Stanzas, Stage Directions

• Characters, Title, Lines, Stanzas, Theme

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

• songs

• books

• lines

• jokes

A drama is intended to be _____ for an audience.

• a performance

• a comedy

• a novel

• a poem

A list of characters that appear in the play or drama is called a _______.

• group

• cast

• crowd

• person

The written text of a play or drama is called a _______.

• script

• book

• paper

• essay

____ are the words written that appear in parentheses () throughout the play.

• Characters

• Lines

• Dialogue

• Stage directions

Stage directions tell characters how to _____ in the play.

• sing

• use dialogue

• act and perform

• tell jokes

A drama is like a literary text because they both have _______.

• actors, a script, acts, and scenes.

• characters, a cast, setting, and lines.

• stage directions, lines, singing, and dancing.

• dialogue, setting, conflict, and plot.

The ____ is the group of characters that is written in the brochure or program of a play.

• crowd

• cast

• poem

• dialogue