Drama Terms

Drama is

• poetry read aloud

• a recording

• a play performed for an audience

• a fight between two people

The playwright

• acts in a play

• wrote the play

Scripts are

• stage directions

• the decorations on the stage

• the props used by the actors

• the written words of a play

Dialogue occurs

• when two or more people are talking

• when the stage is decorated

• when the audience applauds

• when the curtains rise and fall on the stage

Stage directions tell the actors

• how to get to work every day

• how to interpret the script

• how to find where the stage is

• how to socialize with other actors

The set/stage is intended to show the

• when the audience should laugh

• when the play begins and ends

• how much the actors worked to memorize the lines

• time and place where the story occurs

Props are used to

• open and close the stage curtains

• help the audience know when to applaud

• make the action look realistic

• tell the actors how to act

Comedies are meant to ________ while tragedies show the ________ of a hero.

• entertain & downfall

• entertain & success

A monologue is when

• all the characters are speaking at the same time

• the audience asks questions

• a character speaks with another

• the character reveals a secret to the audience

A soliloquy occurs when

• a character gives a speech when alone

• a character is speaking to a group