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Playwriting Vocabulary CW

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the turning point in a plot?

a)

Climax

b)

Rising Action

c)

Falling Action

d)

Introduction

2.

What is the structure of a play, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and

denouement?

a)

the play

b)

the idea

c)

the plot

d)

the theme

3.

What is the long speech one character gives on stage to an audience?

a)

motivational speech

b)

drama

c)

soliloquy

d)

monologue

4.

What are messages from the playwright to the actors, technicians, and others in the theater telling them what to do and how to do it.

a)

Lines

b)

Stage Directions

c)

Orders

d)

Instructions

5.

Who the actor pretends to be. They have goals and ideas.

(a)  

6.

What is a conversation between two or more characters?

a)

Script

b)

Argument

c)

Dialogue

d)

Scene

7.

What is a character’s life story that a playwright creates?

a)

Non-fiction Story

b)

Autobigraphy

c)

Fiction Story

d)

Biography

8.

The obstacles that get in the way of a character achieving what he or she wants. What the characters struggle against.

a)

Conflict

b)

Drama

c)

Exposition

d)

Climax

9.

A single situation or unit of dialogue in a play is called a ________.

a)

Rising Action

b)

Climax

c)

Scene

d)

Dialogue

10.

What is the time and place of a scene called?

(a)  

11.

Dramatic Action is....

a)

the beginning part of a plot that provides important background information.

b)

an explanation of what the characters are trying to do.

c)

the middle part of a plot, consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict.

d)

the final resolution of the conflict in a plot.

12.

What is the final resolution of the conflict in a plot?

a)

Exposition

b)

Climax

c)

Outcome

d)

Denouement

13.

The smaller section of a scene, divided where a shift in emotion or topic occurs is the...

a)

beat

b)

skip

c)

play

d)

conflict

14.

The middle part of a plot, consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict.

a)

Falling Action

b)

Climax

c)

Rising Action

d)

Denouement

15.

The beginning part of a plot that provides important background information.

a)

Rising Action

b)

Climax

c)

Monologue

d)

Exposition

16.

The series of events following the climax of a plot is called the....

a)

Falling Action

b)

Conflict

c)

Denouement

d)

Rising Action

17.

The author of a play.

a)

Playwriter

b)

Scripter

c)

Playwright

d)

Playwrite

18.

What are the 5 elements of theatre?

a)

Script, Characters, Dialogue, Scenes, Action/Plot

b)

Monologue, Language/Script, Climax, Characters, Setting

c)

Theme/Ideas, Action/Plot, Characters, Language, Dialogue

d)

Action/Plot, Characters, Monologue, Dialogue, Theme/Ideas