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Drama and Poetry Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In a drama, what are found in brackets and usually tell the actors what to do and where to go?

a)

Narrator

b)

Stage Directions

c)

Scenes

d)

Dialogue

2.

From The Election: What is the central message presented in the play?

a)

Competition can bring out the best in people.

b)

Keeping promises require commitment.

c)

Making the right decision can be difficult.

d)

In is unwise to underestimate an opponent.

3.

Who is the author of a drama?

a)

Script

b)

Narrator

c)

Playwright

d)

Speaker

4.

From A Hard Rain: [Curtain opens to a cabin with bare furnishings. Erica is tapping on her cellphone. The room is dark and gloomy. Rain can be heard hitting the roof.]

Why does the playwright include these stage directions at the beginning Scene 1?

a)

To show how the setting has caused a conflict for the characters.

b)

To foreshadow the characters' actions later in the play.

c)

To describe what time of day the characters arrived at the cabin.

d)

To provide background information about the relationship between the characters.

5.

A play is composed of different parts. What are these parts called?

a)

Stage Directions and Scenes

b)

Acts and Characters

c)

Chapters and Scenes

d)

Acts and Scenes

6.

When Justin Timberlake sings, "Cry me a river", he is using which type of figurative langauge?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

7.

When Raekwon sings, "my method is meditative musical medicine", he is using which type of figurative language?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Metaphor

c)

Irony

d)

Repetition

8.

What are the groups of lines that form a unit in a poem?

a)

Paragraph

b)

Scene

c)

Act

d)

Stanza

9.

From "Since Hanna Moved Away": When Judith Viorst writes, "The sky is grouchy...", this is an example of which type of figurative language?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Alliteration

d)

Hyperbole

10.

What is a type of figurative language that compares two different things without using the words "like" or "as"?

a)

Simile

b)

Alliteration

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Metaphor

11.

When Edgar Allan Poe writes, "With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven / Coveted her and me", what type of figurative language is he using?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Alliteration

d)

Simile

12.

If I were to tell a quiet group of students, "don't everyone speak at once", which type of figurative language would I be using?

a)

Irony

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Consonance

13.

A literary device in which words, phrases, or lines are repeated is called...

a)

Form

b)

Repetition

c)

Idiom

d)

Irony

14.

In the poem "Since Hanna Moved Away" the phrase "grouchy gray" is an example of...

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

15.

In the poem "Since Hanna Moved Away" why does the speaker most likely repeat the line "Since Hanna Moved Away"?

a)

This is an important even in the speaker's life

b)

The author likes the way the line sounds

c)

The author couldn't think of anything else to say