Pick a Part of Parts of Drama
"Talk" It Out
"I am what I am", but what am I?
"T" Time
Dramatic Melting Pot
100
This dramatic segment is similar to the use of chapters in a book.
What are acts?
100
Conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
100
A play in which the main character suffers a downfall
What is a tragedy?
100
The central message of a work of literature
What is theme?
100
The central struggle between opposing forces in a story or drama
What is conflict?
200
These smaller divisions of a dramatic play ate similar to stanzas in a poem.
What are scenes?
200
A character speaks directly to another character or to himself or herself
What is monologue
200
A story in which characters, settings and events stand for ideas qualities and figures beyond themselves
What is allegory?
200
An author's attitude toward his or her subject
What is tone?
200
An indirect reference to a well-known person, character, place, event or concept
What is allusion?
300
These messages tell an actor or actress where to be on stage or where to appear
What are stage directions?
300
A character says something to the audience that the other characters are not supposed to hear
What is an aside?
300
A type of drama that is humorus and often has a happy ending
What is a comedy?
300
The trait of an epic hero that leads to his demise
What is tragic flaw?
300
The methods a writer uses to develop a character
What is characterization?
400
The action in the play-from beginning to end
What is plot?
400
A group of performers who comment on the action and act as a connection between the actors and the audience
What is a chorus?
400
Writing that uses humor or wit to bring light to the ills of society
What is satire?
400
The hero of a tragedy
What is a tragic hero?
400
Conflict in which you have to choose between two or more actions and have moral reasons for choosing each action
What is a moral dilemma?
500
Where the action happens
What is setting?
500
A character speaks his or her innermost thoughts when no other characters are on stage
What is a soliloquy?
500
A type of comedy with stereotyped characters and impossible situations
What is a farce?
500
The place where many dramas take place
What is a theater?
500
When an author uses any person place or thing on both a literal and figurative level within a work
What is symbolism?
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