Vocabulary
What are stage directions? How does the reader identify them?
an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
(The reader identifies stage directions because they are italicized and/or in parentheses.)
Often the set is described in great detail in the stage directions. This is an example of what literary device?
Imagery
Storyline of a drama
Plot
What is at the beginning of a Dramatic text? Before the story starts?
A brief descriptions of the characters and setting
The different sections of the play
A long speech spoken by one character
A monologue
She sang as sweetly as a nightingale.
What literary device is being used?
Simile
a series of events build toward the point of greatest interest
Rising Action
What does dialogue look like in a Dramatic Text?
SALLY: I told you I didn't want to go to this stupid party!
LAURA: Well, we are here now, might as well make the best of it.
(Sarah jumps at the sound of the phone ringing.)
What is the above an example of?
Stage Directions
When to characters are talking to each other
Dialogue
What literary element is a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated?
Hyperbole
the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
Climax
How does a playwright help the reader understand what is going on when reading instead of watching a play?
The playwright uses stage directions to describe character reactions, actions, and setting.
What is a monologue?
A long speech given by one character.
a dramatic work which presents the downfall of a good character brought about by himself
A tragedy
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What literary device is being used?
Alliteration
the tension stemming from the story's central conflict decreases and the story moves toward its conclusion
Falling Action
How are a dramatic text and a fictional text different?
One is meant to be read, the other is meant to be performed. (Other acceptable answers will be given credit as well)
SALLY: I told you I didn't want to go to this stupid party!
LAURA: Well, we are here now, might as well make the best of it.
What is the above an example of?
Dialogue
What are the different sections of a Drama called? (Books are broken up into chapters, Drama's are broken up into....)
Acts, which are broken up into Scenes
When a character says something only the audience is supposed to hear
Aside
What tends to be the resolution in a Tragedy?
What is a Soliloquy?
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when alone or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play
The author of a play is called what?
Playwright