Elements of Drama

In a play, how does a monologue help assist the reader or audience understand what is happening in the drama?

• It conveys ALL of the characters' thoughts.

• It conveys a SINGLE character's thoughts and reveals the internal conflict.

• It doesn't help the reader or audience at all

• None of the Above

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The major divisions in a play are called--

• Scenes

• Acts

• Chapters

• Sections

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The playwright used the previous lines to reveal the--

• Setting

• Conflict

• Resolution

• Rising Action

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The following two questions come from the play, "Dragon Wings."
[Uncle Bright Star, Wind Rider, and Moon Shadow are pulling a homemade airplane up the hill. ]
Wind Rider: "Take the ropes." [pantomimes taking a rope over his shoulder as he faces the audience] [They strain. Moon Shadow stumbles but gets up. Stamping his feet to get a better footing , he keeps tugging.]
The playwright uses stage directions mainly to--?

• Reveal how relatively easy it was to pull the airplane up the hill

• To convey how difficult it was to pull the airplane up the hill, despite the additional help

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Stage directions are important to the play because--

• They help show the characters' movements

• Helps show the characters' facial expressions and emotions

• Helps show the characters' actions

• All of the Above

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Italicized portions of text found in plays that give information beyond the dialogue and helps the audience interpret the scene are called--

• stage directions

• Rules

• Dialogue

• Movements

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The script, narrator, characters, setting, dialogue, and stage directions are all _______________ of drama.

• Elements

• Words

• Definitions

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___________: the parts a play is divided into.

• Narrator

• Acts/Scenes

• Characters

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The people who are in the play are called _______________.

• People

• Director

• Characters

• Players

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The _______________ gives the audience information about what is happening in the play.

• Characters

• Director

• Narrator

• Script

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