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Elements of Drama
Grammar
Prefix/Suffix/Root Words
Finding Purpose
Elements of Drama 2
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This is a story that is performed for an audience.
What is drama or play
100
What is the function of a preposition?
What is to relate the noun or pronoun that follows it to another word in the sentence.
100
What is the meaning of the Latin root -grat-?
What is thankful or pleasing
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What is your purpose for reading A Christmas Carol?
What is Mostly to be entertained, but it could also be inspirational to some readers.
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The construction onstage that suggests the time and place of the action.
What is setting
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The playwright's instructions about how the drama should be performed.
What is stage directions
200
What is the function of an appositive?
What is an appositive identifies, renames, or explains another noun or pronoun in a sentence.
200
What is the meaning of the Latin prefix inter-?
What is between or among
200
List three purposes for reading a text
What is to be persuaded, informed, or entertained
200
Describe the setting of The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street using descriptive language
Tree lined, quiet residential American street, very typical of a small town. 
300
In The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street what motivates Charlie to shoot Pete Van Horn?
What is Charlie cannot see well and thinks a monster is approaching.
300
Which of the following prepositions best completes the sentence? I looked ____________ the room A. before B. against C. across
What is c. across
300
In which of the following would a person be grateful? A. after being frightened B. after being grounded C. after getting a trophy D. after being lied to
What is C. after getting a trophy
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What would your purpose be for reading a nonfiction text about life in the workhouses of Victorian England?
What is to be informed
300
What is the tone in the following dialogue from The Monsters are Due on Maple Street? Steve: I'm surprised at you, Charlie...Who do I talk to? I talk to monsters from outer space. I talk to three-headed green men who fly over here in what look like meteors.
What is sarcastic
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What motivates Scrooge to change his ways of greed and loneliness?
What is the lessons he learns from three spirits
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Is the participle in the following sentence past or present? Traveling quickly, we got to the game on time. 
What is present
400
If a friend helped you out of a difficult situation would you be grateful?
What is yes
400
What is the purpose of the following stage direction? [They run down stage and and throw their hands in air.]
What is to instruct the actors on how to move
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What does the following dialogue reveal about Scrooge? Scrooge:..When I live in a world of fools such as this? Merry Christmas? What's Christmas time to you but a time of paying bills without any money; a time for find yourself a year older, but not an hour richer?
What is he dislikes Christmas, looks down on others who celebrate it, and is greedy.
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What is the difference in your reading rate when you read the dialogue versus the stage directions in A Christmas Carol?
What is the dialogue is mostly read at a fast rate where the stage directions are read slowly and carefully
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What is the participial phrase in the following sentence? The hallways are clogged with students going to class. 
What is going to class
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How does the meaning of the Latin prefix inter- contribute to the meaning of the word interdependent?
What is depending on each other
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What is the purpose for expository writing?
What is to provide explanations and information on a topic.
500
What is the main idea of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street?
What is fear of the unknown can create prejudices and cause us to out of character.