WorksheetsDrama Terms Review (Graded)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 29mins
The playwright / author's reason for writing the play / text. The word choice and structure help us determine this!
Author's Purpose
Author's Voice
Author's Thoughts
Author's Message
A play for theater, television, film, or radio.
Fiction
Drama
Non-Fiction
Poetry
The person who wrote the play
Drama Author
Writer
Playwright
Storyteller
The way playwrights break up the action in a play; the way it is structured overall
Act
Stage Directions
Dialogue
Scene
A subsection of the play, within an Act, that takes place at a specific time and place / between specific characters
Drama
Act
Scene
Stage Directions
The words characters speak in a piece of text
Speech
Dialogue
Conversation
Monologue
The playwright's written instructions about how actors should move or behave. Broken up into 2 main categories: Action based, Performance based.
Stage Directions
Actor's Notes
Plot
Dialogue
The "main character" or "main focus" of a piece
Antagonist
Protagonist
Actor
Playwright
A long speech in a play, performed by one character / actor
Stage Directions
Dialogue
Monologue
Scene
Stage directions are a key component to understanding drama, because they give the performers and readers of the play an opportunity to understand both the emotions and the actions taking place, therefore helping the reader make inferences about the author's purpose in writing the play.
True
False
The "opposing force" of a piece (does not necessarily have to be a person)
Anatagonist
Protagonist
Playwright
Actor
Stage directions giving the placement of different items on stage in order to show the reader the setting.
Staging
Setting Directions
Performance-Based Stage Directions
Action-Based Stage Directions
When the stage directions give the actor the emotional state of the character / delivery of the line, that would be called (a) based stage directions.
When the stage directions give the actor the ways in which they need to move about or interact with items on the stage, that would be called (a) based stage directions.
What is the FIRST step when reading ANY passage on an assessment?
Preview the questions prior to reading the passage
Go straight to the passage and read it only one time
Define words you don't know
Annotate the passage
