Dramatic Conventions Quiz

The two characters in this scene show an example of what kind of dramatic convention?

• Monologues

• Asides

• Soliloquies

• 1. Character Foils

• This can also be used in a low voice to speak to certain actors so someone else cannot overhear.

• 1. Character Foils

• 1. Stage Directions

• Aside

• Soliloquies

• When an actor wants to let the audience know their thoughts, they will use this.

• Monologues

• Asides

• 1. Dramatic Irony

• Soliloquies

Actors in a play can use this to speak to the audience instead of addressing the actors on the stage.

• Aside

• Soliloquy

• Dramatic Irony

• Monologue

• This involves the actor performing this speech on the stage, usually alone.

• 1. Monologues 

• Asides

• 1. Soliloquies

• Dramatic Irony

• A long speech performed by one character/actor in a play to express his thoughts and feelings to other characters or to the audience.

• 1. Soliloquies

• 1. Dialogue

• 1. Monologues 

• Asides

• This usually occurs when the audience knows what is happening on stage while the main character does not.

• 1. Soliloquies

• 1. Dramatic Irony

• Asides

• Character Foils

• The performers are missing crucial information that the viewers have seen from other scenes of the play which can make the scene funny or sad.

• 1. Dramatic Irony

• Character Foils

• 1. Soliloquies

• Asides

• Though the actor may be the only one speaking in the speech, other characters are present on stage.

• Asides

• Stage Directions

• Soliloquies

• Monologues

•  a character who contrasts with another character; typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist. 

• 1. Monologues 

• Asides

• Dramatic Irony

• Character Foils