Drama and Poetry Review

In a drama, what are found in brackets and usually tell the actors what to do and where to go?

• Narrator

• Stage Directions

• Scenes

• Dialogue

From The Election: What is the central message presented in the play?

• Competition can bring out the best in people.

• Keeping promises require commitment.

• Making the right decision can be difficult.

• In is unwise to underestimate an opponent.

Who is the author of a drama?

• Script

• Narrator

• Playwright

• Speaker

From A Hard Rain: [Curtain opens to a cabin with bare furnishings. Erica is tapping on her cellphone. The room is dark and gloomy. Rain can be heard hitting the roof.]

Why does the playwright include these stage directions at the beginning Scene 1?

• To show how the setting has caused a conflict for the characters.

• To foreshadow the characters' actions later in the play.

• To describe what time of day the characters arrived at the cabin.

• To provide background information about the relationship between the characters.

A play is composed of different parts. What are these parts called?

• Stage Directions and Scenes

• Acts and Characters

• Chapters and Scenes

• Acts and Scenes

When Justin Timberlake sings, "Cry me a river", he is using which type of figurative langauge?

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

When Raekwon sings, "my method is meditative musical medicine", he is using which type of figurative language?

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Repetition

What are the groups of lines that form a unit in a poem?

• Paragraph

• Scene

• Act

• Stanza

From "Since Hanna Moved Away": When Judith Viorst writes, "The sky is grouchy...", this is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

What is a type of figurative language that compares two different things without using the words "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor