Unit 4 (Drama) Vocab Quiz

What is the definition of a drama?

• A story that someone wrote about their own life

• A play meant to be performed

• A true story that contains facts and data

• A fantastical story that has magic and a moral

The person who writes/creates a drama is called a -

Which of the following contains an example of a character tag?

• (Pinocchio sits center stage. The good fairy sits beside him facing the audience.)

• Character List: Sam, Ruben, Carter

• Act 1 Scene 1

• Sam: You don't appreciate my talents because I'm a girl.

What are props in a play?

• The lines spoken by the characters.

• The time and location a drama takes place.

• A list of all of the characters in a drama.

• Objects used by characters to make the play more realistic.

The time and place a story occurs is the -

Dialogue is -

• The words spoken by a character to another character

• The time and location a story takes place

• Objects used by characters to make the play more realistic

• The paper the actors/actresses read their lines from

The person telling a story is called the -

The difference between acts and scenes is -

• Acts contain dialogue, but scenes do not.

• Scenes are larger chunks of a drama, acts are smaller chunks. Acts are inside of scenes.

• Acts are larger chunks of a drama, scenes are smaller chunks. Scenes are inside of acts.

• Scenes are like chapters while acts are like paragraphs

True or False: every time a scene changes, so does the setting or events happening

• True

• False

Choose TWO correct answers: Stage directions -

• list all of the characters in a play

• are usually in italicized, brackets, or parenthesis

• provide details about the setting and tells characters what to do

• are the lines that characters read in a play