WorksheetsDrama Vocabulary Test
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Name:
4 lines
2.
1. Name the parts of a play. Part I is given to you. What comes next?
Act I: Exposition
4 lines
3.
2. These are instructions for the actors and stage crew, usually in italics.
a)
stage directions
b)
transgression
c)
resolution
d)
slating
4.
3. These are a group of characters in Greek tragedy (and later in drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.
a)
procure
b)
banishment
c)
sequester
d)
Chorus
5.
4. Shakespeare loves to drive people away or force them to leave their home by _________ them.
a)
bequeath
b)
wayward
c)
foil
d)
banishing
6.
5. The girl was told she was very __________, gloomy and weary.
a)
emancipate
b)
melancholy
c)
grievance
d)
ambiguities
7.
6. They pretend to be more superior than others, often commenting on issues of right and wrong in regards to other's actions.
a)
anguish
b)
languish
c)
moralize
d)
wayward
8.
7. The plants _______ and die if they are not cared for properly.
a)
laugh
b)
thrive
c)
languish
d)
stretch
9.
8. He was only there because he didn't want to hear her bickering for the whole week about how he didn't attend her mother's charity event. Going on _______ was better than anything else.
a)
sufferance
b)
nuisance
c)
impatience
d)
resistance
10.
9. Although Treyon wants to sign the contract, he needs to understand the ________ language of it first.
a)
eventful
b)
easy
c)
boring
d)
tedious
11.
10. If the Senate doesn't come to an agreement, we might have a _________ on our hands.
a)
sequester
b)
reveal
c)
bring out
d)
tell
12.
11. It is a form of communication between characters.
a)
monologue
b)
soliloquy
c)
aside
d)
dialogue
13.
12. This is a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. It is given in front of other characters.
a)
dialogue
b)
monologue
c)
soliloquy
d)
aside
14.
13. This is a long speech given by a character in a play. It gives insights to the characters thoughts.
a)
soliloquy
b)
aside
c)
monologue
d)
dialogue
15.
14. This is where a character speaks directly to the audience. The other characters on stage do not hear this speech.
a)
monologue
b)
soliloquy
c)
aside
d)
dialogue
16.
15. This is the physical surroundings, visible to the audience, in which the action of the play takes place.
a)
props
b)
sets
c)
chorus
d)
Globe Theatre
17.
16. This is something you use as a support, like a broom that serves as a _____ to hold a door open. A ____ is also something that goes on stage, like a garbage can in a Beckett play.
a)
sets
b)
props
c)
dialogue
d)
aside
18.
17. This is verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
a)
blank verse
b)
chorus
c)
sets
d)
props
19.
18. The prologue of Romeo and Juliet is one of the best-known examples of a choral sonnet in any of Shakespeare's works. The _____ enters the stage before the play's main characters and recites fourteen lines that set the scene and provide the audience with important information about what's about to happen.
a)
Chorus
b)
Shakespeare
c)
Globe Theatre
d)
Derek
20.
19. English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616).
a)
Queen Victoria
b)
Edgar Allan Poe
c)
William Shakespeare
d)
George Orwell
21.
20. The theater in London where many of the great plays of William Shakespeare were first performed. Shakespeare himself acted here. It burned and was rebuilt shortly before Shakespeare's death and was finally pulled down in the middle of the seventeenth century. It was later rebuilt.
a)
The Statue of Liberty
b)
London Bridge
c)
Westminster Abbey
d)
The Globe Theater
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