STAAR Drama Review

I am a type of genre with characters, lines and stage directions.  What am I ?

• Poetry

• Drama

• Fiction

• Non Fiction

I provide information to the characters about their actions or feelings.  I am in parenthesis.  What am I?

• Lines

• Setting

• Stage directions

• Acts

A larger drama is divided into these sections.  I am bigger than a scene.  What am I?

• Stage directions

• Dialogue

• Props

• Acts

I am the person or animal in a drama that has lines or follows stage directions.  Who am I?

• Props

• Script

• Characters

• Scenes

What is the primary purpose of using dialogue in a piece of drama?

• To describe the setting to the audience

• To provide background information about the plot

• To reveal the thoughts and feelings of characters

• To list the characters involved in the play

These objects are used to bring the drama to life.  What am I?

• Props

• Lines

• Characters

• Dialogue

I am a story told in front of a live audience.  What am I?

• A poem

• A story

• A fantasy

• A drama

Which of the following is NOT a way to recognize this text as a play (drama)?

• It has a title

• It has a list of characters

• It is broken into scenes

• It has dialogue and stage directions

Which of the following is an example of dialogue from the text?

• CARTER: A nine-year-old boy

• [The curtain opens. Carter, Marcus, and Ruben are sitting on the bench at an empty park basketball court, rolling a basketball back and forth.]

• RUBEN: I can’t believe David is going to miss our basketball tournament.

• SCENE 1

A drama is broken into scenes because-

• the setting might change

• a new character might be introduced

• the events change

• all of the above