WorksheetsDrama and Poetry Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
In a drama, what are found in brackets and usually tell the actors what to do and where to go?
Narrator
Stage Directions
Scenes
Dialogue
From The Election: What is the central message presented in the play?
Competition can bring out the best in people.
Keeping promises require commitment.
Making the right decision can be difficult.
In is unwise to underestimate an opponent.
Who is the author of a drama?
Script
Narrator
Playwright
Speaker
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?
To show how the setting has caused a conflict for the characters.
To foreshadow the characters' actions later in the play.
To describe what time of day the characters arrived at the cabin.
To provide background information about the relationship between the characters.
A play is composed of different parts. What are these parts called?
Stage Directions and Scenes
Acts and Characters
Chapters and Scenes
Acts and Scenes
When Justin Timberlake sings, "Cry me a river", he is using which type of figurative langauge?
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
When Raekwon sings, "my method is meditative musical medicine", he is using which type of figurative language?
Alliteration
Metaphor
Irony
Repetition
What are the groups of lines that form a unit in a poem?
Paragraph
Scene
Act
Stanza
From "Since Hanna Moved Away": When Judith Viorst writes, "The sky is grouchy...", this is an example of which type of figurative language?
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
What is a type of figurative language that compares two different things without using the words "like" or "as"?
Simile
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
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?
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Simile
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?
Irony
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Consonance
A literary device in which words, phrases, or lines are repeated is called...
Form
Repetition
Idiom
Irony
In the poem "Since Hanna Moved Away" the phrase "grouchy gray" is an example of...
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Hyperbole
In the poem "Since Hanna Moved Away" why does the speaker most likely repeat the line "Since Hanna Moved Away"?
This is an important even in the speaker's life
The author likes the way the line sounds
The author couldn't think of anything else to say
