Elements of drama

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What is a drama?

• Movies

• Plays

• Video Games

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The background of a play is called a...

• Building

• Set

• Environment

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Drama is meant to be

• read silently.

• performed by actors.

• funny.

• sad.

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In drama, the plot and characters are developed primarily through

• description.

• inferences.

• costumes.

• dialogue.

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The words characters speak aloud are

• dialogue.

• stage directions.

• props.

• none of the above

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How are plays divided?

• Into parts and chapters

• Into acts and scenes

• Into sections and subsections

• Into stanzas and lines

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A speech in which a character speaks to a silent or absent listener in a moment of deep emotion:

• dialogue

• monologue

• soliloquy

• aside

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A speech by a character alone on stage, whose words reveal what he or she is thinking or feeling:

• dialogue

• monologue

• soliloquy

• aside