Fun Facts
The main characters were usually played by this person.
What are men?
The place that a play takes place.
What is a theatre?
A story written to be performed by actors.
What is a drama.
The time and place where the action takes place.
What is the setting?
A comparison using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
The place that drama originated.
What is Greece or what is Athens?
Smaller sections within an act.
What is a scene?
The message of the drama.
What is the theme?
The point of the story where the conflict is at its height, and events take a dramatic turn.
What is the climax?
A comparison that says one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
The Greeks performed two types of plays.
What are comedies and tragedies.
These help to tell the actors what to say and do, along with helping the audience visualize the play.
What are stage directions?
A list of the people or animals in a play (the cast).
What is the cast of characters?
The point in which the problem is resolved, but sometimes it is not.
What is the resolution?
What is a hyperbole?
During some of the first performances of drama, the audience did not clap instead they did this.
What is stamp their feet?
The main sections of a drama.
What is an act?
The words, phrases, or grammar commonly used in a certain area.
What is dialect?
Introduces the characters, setting, and initial conflict.
What is the exposition?
A joke based on the different possible meanings of a word or what a word sounds like.
What is a pun?
This word comes from the Greek word dran.
What is the word drama?
The words spoken by the characters or narrator preceded by the character's name in capital letters.
What is dialogue?
This is known as old fashioned language.
What is antiquated language?
The series of events in which the main character or characters try to solve a problem or attain a goal.
What is the plot?
A comparison to a historical, mythical, or literary person or event.
What is allusion?