Vocab 20 RandJ drama terms

it is common for Shakespeare to use _____ to let the audience know what is happening in his character's minds.

• asides
• monologue
• soliloquy

What does aside mean?

• a lengthy speech in which a character, alon on stage, expresses his or her thoughts to the audience
• a brief remark by a character revealing thoughts or feeling to the audience, unheard by other characters
• restate text in your own words

Hamlet’s long _____ begins, “To be or not to be, that is the question.”

• soliloquy
• paraphrase
• monologue

In 1954 he was one of the French Dominicans ordered into _____ because of their support for the worker-priest experiment.

• banish
• exile
• eloquence

Naturally, because I was talking to him in my head, the whole conversation was a _____, and it was all about me.

• paraphrase
• soliloquy
• monologue

What does eloquence mean?

• restate text in your own words
• speech that is vivid, forceful, graceful, and persuasive
• a lengthy speech in which a character, alon on stage, expresses his or her thoughts to the audience

I wrote a _____ of the opening lines by saying, “Two families of equal status” instead of “Two households, both alike in dignity.”

• asides
• monologue
• paraphrase

I remember crying in the back stalls when Storm Boy lost _____ Mr Percival.

• martial
• gallant
• banish

His hilarious five-minute _____ about his complex wedding arrangements was fabulous.

• soliloquy
• aside
• monologue

What does exile mean?

• gallant
• banish
• martial