WorksheetsMonologue Study Guide
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 21mins
What is a monologue?
two or more characters speaking with each other
one character speaking at length to another
one character saying their thoughts aloud in private
a type of play
A monologue featuring a humorous character or a humorous circumstance is a (a) monologue
3-6.
Answer the questions below after watching the video
What do stage directions do?
Tell the audience what is happening in the play
Tell the director EXACTLY what the set needs to look like
Give advice to actors on how to play their part
Confuse the director
Where is the act or scene of a play labeled in the script?
You can tell which character is speaking because their name comes (a) the dialogue.
Which character recites the monologue in this example?
(a)
What is a character's objective?
Who the character is speaking to
What the character wants or needs
Another word for monologue
How quickly or how slowly you are speaking
When talking about monologues, who is the audience?
Who the monologuer is talking to on stage
The people watching the play
A comedian
The protagonist of the play
How do actors "create" a character?
Asking the director
Body language
Writing the play
Voice
How might this person feel? How does their body language express that feeling?
Focus on the girl in the green jacket on the right. How do you think she feels? How does her body language express that?
Pitch is....
If you use slang
If you talk with an accent
How quickly or how slowly you speak
How high or how low you speak
(a) is how loud or soft someone speaks.
A character's voice refers to what they say and how they say it. Which elements of voice can inform an actor of a character's personality?
Audience
Rate
Slang
Accent
BONUS: What Shakespeare play is the character Ophelia from?
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
