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Drama Unit Vocabulary

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is drama?

a)

a story told in dialogue by performers in front of an audience ex. Hamlet

b)

a word often used to describe plays that address serious subjects

c)

both

d)

neither

e)

ex. book

2.

what is a prop

a)

a small, movable item that the actors use to make their actions look realistic ex. tea cup

b)

a screen

c)

a cast list full of many names and actors

d)

a person's broken leg drawn on a piece of paper that's called a cast list

e)

ex. hair

3.

What is scenery?

a)

another word for set ex. forest

b)

the current scene the actor is saying

c)

a cast list

d)

a fun house

e)

ex. coffee cup

4.

What is a cast?

a)

a group of people who have important roles in a book, story, or event ex. list of people who made the role

b)

the people of the United States

c)

another word for a group of animals

d)

an animator

e)

ex. lion

5.

What is a climax?

a)

The highest or most intense part of a book, movie, show, play, or event ex. when Mufassa dies and Simba runs away

b)

a little pony

c)

a play

d)

another word for falling action

e)

ex. The Outsiders

6.

What is a script?

a)

the written text of a play, movie, or broadcast ex. Lion King Play script

b)

the name of your favorite broadcatser

c)

another word for directions

d)

stage directions

e)

ex. Downstage

7.

What is a playwright?

a)

the author of the play ex. William Shakespeare

b)

the actor in the play

c)

the character in the play

d)

the girl in the play that loves to run around and eat ice cream on a cold Sunday evening after dinner but before bed

e)

ex. Boo from Monsters Inc.

8.

What are acts?

a)

the units of action in a drama ex. Act I

b)

the units of vocab in a drama

c)

the units of action in a building

d)

the units of vocab in a building

e)

ex. Stage Right

9.

What are scenes?

a)

acts often divided into parts ex. where you have coffee in a coffee shop

b)

acts multiplied into pieces

c)

schools in a row

d)

houses in a row

e)

ex. Amy Lowell

10.

What is this vocab word? The playwright's technique for creating believable characters

(a)  

11.

What is dramatic speech?

(a)  

12.

What is dialouge?

a)

a conversation between or among characters ex. "Hi", "Hello"

b)

the way you move

c)

the way you feel

d)

the way it moves

e)

ex. the way the coffee moves

13.

What is a monologue?

a)

a long speech spoken by a single character ex. us at the wax museum

b)

A boring thing said by a person and they drone on and on

c)

The way a person speaks in a play

d)

another word for dialogue

e)

ex. Brad Pitt

14.

What is aside?

a)

When a character turns to the audience to make an observation or a remark that other characters can't hear

b)

When you move something or a prop to the side

c)

When a character or member of a cast goes offstage to the side

d)

The way one might move

e)

ex. Leonardo DiCaprio when he looks to the side

15.

What are stage directions?

a)

The sets of bracketed information that describe the scenery and how characters should move or speak ex. Stage Left

b)

The direction you might move the props

c)

The way the backstage crew moves the curtain

d)

The sets of groups called acts

e)

ex. Act II

16.

What is a theater?

a)

A place where plays are usually presented ex. Dallas Theater

b)

A place that a tv show is aired

c)

The name of the set

d)

A name of a person in a play

e)

ex. Ryan Reynolds

17.

What is a set?

a)

The term used for the construction on stage that suggests the time and place of the action ex. Frozen Play with Ice Blocks as a background

b)

The scenery of the theater

c)

How to move backstage

d)

A term for moving side to side

e)

ex. Gigi Hadid

18.

What is a comedy?

a)

A form of drama that has a happy ending ex. The 39 Steps

b)

A form of drama that starts good but ends bad

c)

A form of drama that starts bad but ends good

d)

a comedian that makes things not funny

e)

ex. Melanie Martinez

19.

What is a tragedy?

a)

A form of drama contrasted with comedy; it ends in a downfall of the main character ex. Hamlet

b)

the person who write the drama

c)

Another word for a comedy drama

d)

When something starts bad but ends good

e)

ex. Cady Heron

20.

What is screenplay?

a)

The scripts for film ex. Daddy Day Care Script

b)

The words in a book

c)

The props in a set

d)

The films in a movie

e)

ex. Bella Hadid

21.

What is teleplay?

a)

scripts written for television and often contain elements from screenplay

b)

another version of screenplay

c)

the way props are on the set

d)

the people in a cast list

22.

What is radio play?

a)

They are written to be performed as radio broadcasts

b)

Another version of teleplay

c)

Another version of screenplay

d)

The way the backstage crew moves the props