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Theater Vocabulary Lesson 1&2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Plot

a)

wandering singing story tellers

b)

new events or people introduced in a story that makes the problem more difficult to solve

c)

the order of events in a story

d)

acting on the spur of the moment with no planning

2.

complications

a)

wandering singing story tellers

b)

new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

c)

acting on the spur of the moment

d)

who, what, were, when, why

3.

improvisation

a)

acting without planning

b)

new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

c)

the order of events in a story

d)

wandering story tellers

4.

troubadours

a)

new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

b)

who, what, where, why, when

c)

wandering singing story tellers

d)

new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

5.

The Five Ws

a)

new events or people introduced in a story that make the problem more difficult to solve

b)

who, what, where, when, why

c)

singing traveling story tellers

d)

the events of a story

6.

rising action

a)

the turning point of the story

b)

performance using only gestures and body movement

c)

the part of the story that leads up to the climax

d)

the choice and use of words in speech

7.

pantomime

a)

performance using only gestures and body movement

b)

the events leading up to the climax

c)

the turning point of a story

d)

instructions for an actor on how and where to move and speak

8.

stage directions

a)

the events that lead up to the climax

b)

the choice and use of words in speech

c)

instructions for an actor on how and where to move and speak

d)

performance using only gestures and movement

9.

climax

a)

the choice and use of words in speech

b)

the parts leading up to the climax

c)

performance using only gestures and body movement

d)

the turning point of the story

10.

diction

a)

the choice and use of words in speech

b)

the part of the story that leads up to the climax

c)

the turning point of the story

d)

performance using only gestures and body movements

11.

action

a)

response to an action

b)

movement

c)

role of someone or something

d)

reason character does something

12.

character

a)

movement

b)

role of someone or something

c)

conversation between characters

d)

response to action

13.

dialogue

a)

conversation between characters

b)

movement

c)

response to an action

d)

reason a character does what he does

14.

motivation

a)

response to an action

b)

conversation between characters

c)

movement

d)

reason a character does what he does

15.

reaction

a)

movement

b)

role of someone or something

c)

response to an action

d)

conversation between characters