A story acted out by live people in front of other live people
What is a play (or drama)?
100
Unexpected behaviors and exaggerated facial expressions; emotions are viewed rather than spoken
What are comic actions?
100
A person or animal in a play or drama
What is a character?
100
Conversations that take place between two or more actors
What is dialogue?
100
Describe what is happening on stage
What are stage directions?
200
Presents serious and important situations that end unhappily - usually with the death of one or more characters
What is a tragedy?
200
Using the wrong words or saying the opposite of what is meant
What is a misstatement?
200
A struggle or a problem that characters experience in a play or drama
What is conflict?
200
A comment or line that is spoken aloud by a character to the audience, but is not heard by other characters on stage
What is an aside?
200
Two ways stage directions appear in the text
What is in italics or parentheses?
300
Any play that ends happily; this is not always a funny play
What is a comedy?
300
Puns or other clever or silly exchanges of words
What is wordplay?
300
The most dramatic part or turning point in a play or drama
What is the climax?
300
A long speech by one actor to one or more other actors onstage
What is a monologue?
300
Monologue, Soliloquy, or Aside? Playwrights help the audience understand a character's true feelings yet mask those feelings from other characters in the play.
What is an aside?
400
True or false? Comedies often have other purposes as well, such as to make us think about important topics.
What is true?
400
Overstatements; making something seem like a bigger deal than it really is
What is exaggeration?
400
This wraps up the action and shows how the conflict ends
What is the resolution?
400
A long speech by a character alone on the stage, speaking to himself or herself
What is a soliloquy?
400
Monologue, Soliloquy, or Aside? This helps to reveal character's emotional struggles, learn of an important event from the character's past, or witness a character's decision making process.
What is a soliloquy?
500
This is the location of the origination of the oldest plays
What is Greece?
500
What element of humor does the following conversation represent?
Amy: Why did you stop taking music lessons? I thought you liked playing the piano.
Rosa: Play the piano? All that practicing was more like work.
What is wordplay?
500
The actions that precede the climax and follow the climax (identify both terms)
What are the rising and falling actions?
500
This type of punctuation does not exist to identify dialogue in a drama
What are quotation marks?
500
Stage directions include information about these four areas
What are setting, props, characters' actions, and characters' emotions?