Drama PreTest

Stage directions do all of the following EXCEPT:

• Convey the characters' thoughts to the audience.

• Provide the director with details of the setting.

• Direct the actors on how to speak their lines.

• Tell the actors where to move during the scene.

Names of ALL participants in a drama:

• Roles

• Properties (Props)

• Cast of Characters

• Characters

A form of literature meant to be performed on stage in front of actors

• Drama

• Episode

• Poem

• Short Story

A series of events in a drama

• Plot

• Rising Action

• Play

• Conflict

The sections that a drama is divided into

• Divisions

• Parts

• Roles

• Scenes

A collection of scenes in a drama

• Monologue

• Prologue

• Act

• Trilogy

A struggle between opposing forces that is revealed through a character's thoughts and actions

• Fight

• Conflict

• Climax

• Control

The writer of a play

• Author

• Editor

• Playwright

• Poet

The person who speaks to the audience when a drama is performed

• Stage Manager

• Main Character

• Playwright

• Narrator

What do you call the character or person that an actor/actress plays the part of?

• Role

• Job

• Cast

• Speaker