Elements of Fiction & Drama

_______ is a kind of literature that is written to be performed by actors for an audience.

• soliloquy

• drama

• scenes

• monologue

__________ is a struggle between a character and opposing characters or opposing forces. Conflict can also occur within a character.

• drama

• conflict

• rising action

• resolution

The __________ is the time and place in which a story occurs.

• character

• plot

• conflict

• setting

A ____________ is a person (or an animal) in a literary work.

• character

• plot

• setting

• climax

__________ is when two or more characters speak to one another in a story.

• monologue

• conflict

• dialogue

• soliloquy

Which element of fiction is being described below:

Jenna stared at the acceptance email for the overseas art program, her heart pounding. This was her dream—but leaving meant abandoning her younger brother, who had no one else to care for him while their mother worked double shifts. She closed the laptop, torn between freedom and responsibility.

• conflict

• plot

• theme

• climax

___________________ are a playwright's written instructions about how actors should move and behave.

• Monologues

• Soliloquies

• Stage directions

• Asides

Which element of drama is being illustrated in this video?

• aside

• monologue

• soliloquy

• dialogue

A ___________ is a section in a play in which all of the events occur in one place at one time.

• monologue

• scene

• stage direction

• dialogue

What element of drama is being illustrated in this video?

• soliloquy

• aside

• monologue

• dialogue