D
plays are made up of
ACTS
conversation between 2 or more people is
DIALOGUE
actors/actresses in plays are called
CAST
a character steps away from the others on stage to speak directly to the audience while the others on stage ignore him/her
ASIDE
drama is written by a
PLAYWRIGHT
instructions by the playwright to actors and director to tell how to stage and perform
The name of the play we are getting ready to read
THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR
a play which ends happily for the major characters and often centers around a romantic plot
COMEDY
acts are divided up into
SCENES
a noble hero who meets his end because of some tragic flaw is a
FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS
narrative or storytelling written for a performance and can be either fiction or nonfiction
DRAMA
a play that faces serious topics and limitations of human strength and often ends with disaster for the tragic hero is a
TRAGEDY
the skill this assessment is focused on is
understanding drama
a poetic form in which a single character, reveals himself/herself and the dramatic situation
MONOLOGUE
drama is meant to be
ACTED OUT
a work pointing out the problems of an issue through humor, usually political in nature
SATIRE
a dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself/herself or reveals his/her thoughts without addressing a listener
(thinking out loud)
SOLILOQUY
drama is written in
DIALOGUE
the main objective for English 10 is to
IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION
group of actors who speak together with one voice and describe and comment on the main action of the play.
CHORUS
the most common type of characterization in a play is
INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work by means imitation
PARODY
written in paragraph and continual text form, separated into chapters or parts, actions are important, but the narrator may tell more about the character, and it is meant to be read
PROSE
The playwright for Julius Caesar is
William Shakespeare