WorksheetsDrama Terms Final
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
A character or force against which another character struggles
Aside
Antagonist
Blocking
Protagonist
A traditional chorus in Greek tragedy is a group of characters who comment on the action of a play without participating in it.
Couplet
Link
Chorus
Choir
A pair of rhyming lines usually the same length and meter
Dramatic Irony
Monologue
Couplet
Foil
What is the meaning of dialogue?
A struggle that takes place in a story
Conversations between two or more characters
The internal monologue of a character
The gestures an actor uses in a drama
A comparison of two things without using the words "like" or "as"
Foil
Metaphor
Meter
Oxymoron
A speech by one character that is spoken to another character or characters
Monologue
Dramatic Speech
Paradox
Dialogue
What is the meaning of the term scenes?
Visual descriptions using the five senses.
What acts are broken up into
Character's spoken word
Story that is written in script form
Who are the characters in a drama?
People who are in a story
The struggle between opposing forces
This is what the act are broken up into
Play that presents a serious situation
The spontaneous movement and speech creating a specific character in a particular situation.
Dramatic Speech
Playwright
Improvisation
Irony
The ensemble of actors who portray the roles in a play
Character
Spoters
Crew
Cast
What is the climax of a story?
The saddest part of the story
The funniest part of the story
The most exciting part of the story
The least exciting part of the story
An opportunity through which a performer is able to demonstrate their talent
Stage presentation
Presence
Audition
Apply
The major sections of a play
Scene
Lines
Act
Stanzas
What role does the playwright play?
The author of a play
The main character of a play
The editor of a play
The sound technician of a play
What is the definition of the term acts?
The details about the characters and setting in a play
The units of action that make up the entire play
The information provided at the beginning of a play
The most exciting part of the play
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as."
Pun
Simile
Joke
Soliloquy
What is the meaning of the term monologue
Long speech by two or more characters
Information that gives the main struggle or conflict
Long speech by one single Character
Information that gives the where and when story took place
A joke which comes from a play on words
Simile
Laugh
Comedy
Pun
What is the meaning of the term gestures?
Path formed by the actor's movement on stage
Movement of the actor's head, shoulder, arm, hand, leg, or foot to convey meaning
Physical and vocal aspects used by an actor to convey mood, feeling or personality
Stage blocking or the movements of the actors on stage during the performance
A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect
Personification
Oxymoron
Paradox
Pun
A speech in which a sole character says his or her thoughts aloud, usually while her or she is alone on stage.
Dialoque
Soliloquy
Monoloque
Smilie
Figure of speech which gives human qualities to an object, an animal, or an idea
Tragedy
Sonnet
Personification
Pun
What are stage directions in a play?
The information provided in a play to offer guidance to the actors and director as to what they should be going.
The information provided in a play that describes the place, time and mood.
The information provided at the beginning of a story (setting, characters, etc.)
The information provided at the end of the play that describes the lessons learned by the characters.
What is the meaning of the term movement?
Stage blocking or the movements of the actors on stage during the performance
Path formed by the actor's movement on stage
Physical and vocal aspects used by the actor to convey, mood, or feeling
movement of the actor's head, shoulder, arm, hand, leg, or foot to convey meaning
A fourteen-line lyric poem (four-line stanzas) usually written in iambic pentameter.
Tragedy
Sonnet
Comedy
Stanza
A dramatic work which presents the downfall of a good character brought about by himself
Tragedy
Tragic Flaw
Antagonist
Aside
Character who is used as a contrast to another character.
Understudy
Seashells
Foil
Foreshadowing
A statement that seems to contradict itself, but is true
Sonnet
Tone
Imagery
Paradox
Language that appeals to the senses that create vivid images
Ideas
Irony
Tone
Imagery
The process of creating a character whose words and actions are determined by the elements of the play
Cast
Audition
Characterization
Cue
Time allocated to practice and prepare the actors cast in a play for performance.
Fourth Wall
Rehearsal
Audition
Interpretation
The acting area.
Backstage
Offstage
Center stage
Stage
What are the four types of medium techniques used in drama?
Non-verbal gestures, verbal gestures, and sound effects
Audio, written, stage, and film
Props, scenery, and stage directions
Scenes, acts, scenery, and exposition
A drama, or a play is a passage that tells a story using_________ characters say to each other
Songs
Books
Jokes
Lines
A list of characters that appear in the play or drama is called__________. They are also written in the brochure or program of the play.
Group
Crowd
People
Cast
An indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place or event.
Spelling
Alliteration
Allusion
Clue
A drama is intended to be ______________ for an audience.
Tragedy
Performance
Comedy
Fun
This is the written text of a play.
Book
Lines
Paper
Script
Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea.
Imagrey
Irony
Comma
Apostrophe
Poetry that does not rhyme, but uses iambic pentameter as its meter.
Blank Verse
Poetry Verse
Verse
Verse Blank
A humorous scene, incident, or speech that is included in a serious play to break the tension.
Comic Irony
Comic Relief
Comic View
Dramatic Comedy
A line of poetry that has 10 syllables
Pentameter
Lambic
Iambic Pentameter
Pentameter Iambic
When an author includes hints about what will happen later in the story.
Listen
Shadowing
Alliteration
Foreshadowing
the repetition of an initial consonant sound
Chorus
Irony
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Stage directions are the words written that appear in parentheses throughout the play and these words tell the characters how to ______________.
Do the play
Sing
Act
Use dialogue
These are used to introduce new characters and foreshadow future events.
Scenes and acts
Script
Actors
Dramas
A dialogue is the lines that characters say to each other. They must include______________and ______________.
talking and singing
dancing and singing
listening and speaking
reading and writing
A part or character that an actor interprets in a performance.
Scene
Act
Role
Rehearsal
The area of the stage farthest from the audience.
Upstage
Downstage
Center Stage
Backstage
The actor's ability to be heard.
Projection
Volume
Voice Production
Theme
