Drama terms

What is a Soliloquy?

• Soliloquies reveal hidden thoughts, conflicts, secrets, or motives.

• Soliloquies reveal open actions and thoughts that are witnessed by all.

• Soliloquies CAN be heard by the other characters onstage

• Soliloquies are spoken directly to other characters onstage.

Select the answer that states the truth about a Monologue.

• Monologues are spoken directly to other characters onstage.

• Monologues CANNOT be heard by the other characters onstage.

• No one else hears

• Similar to Aside

What is a Dialogue?

• Usually only one or two lines spoken to self.

• CANNOT be heard by the other characters onstage.

• Conversation between two or more characters.

• Character speaks directly to audience

True or False

Soliloquies and asides CANNOT be heard by the other characters onstage. Soliloquies and asides are spoken directly to the audience, or as private words to the self.

A setting is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either nonfiction or fiction.

An audience is a group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert.

On the image provided the girl in the blue is holding a ___________.

• Set piece

• Prop

• Nothing

• Money for the well

Look at the image the people on the stage are called ______________.

• People

• Children

• Props

• Characters

The image shows a _____________ for a play.

• Setting

• Plot

• Conflict

• Character

What is a practice or trial performance of a play or other work for later public performance?

• Theater

• Rehearsal

• Plot

• A Stage