Elements of Drama
Vocabulary
Elements of Drama
Review
100
Where a play takes place.
What is a theatre?
100
A carefree adventure
What is a lark?
100
A story enacted on stage for a live audience.
What is a drama?
100
The name of the protagonist in the Hitchhiker.
Who is Ronald Adams?
200
A long speech by one single character
What is a monologue?
200
Suggesting or threatening evil.
What is sinister?
200
Words or conversation spoken between actors in a play.
What is dialogue?
200
The character or force that opposes the protagonist.
Who is that antagonist?
300
The people that perform in the play.
Who are actors?
300
A guarantee or pledge.
What is assurance?
300
The type of drama that has a happy ending and uses humor.
What is a comedy?
300
The author of Tell-Tale Heart. He wrote stories that were often dark and full of horrifying images.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
400
The type of drama that has a sad ending.
What is a tragedy?
400
Tedious sameness
What is monotony?
400
The author of a play.
Who is the playwright?
400
A struggle or clash between opposing characters.
What is the conflict?
500
A speech by a character alone on stage to himself or herself or to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
500
A place where two roads meet.
What is a junction?
500
Remarks made to the audience or to one character; the other characters onstage do not hear the remarks.
What is Asides?
500
The type of genre of a story where the author creates a sense of excitement, tension, or fear about what will happen next. (Tell-Tale Heart and Hitchhiker were both these type of stories)
What is suspense?
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