Cheesy Choices
This is the feeling or emotional atmosphere that the audience gets.
What is mood?
This is the person who writes a play.
What is a playwright?
This is the mood at the start of the play when the families move into hiding.
What is nervous, tense, or fearful?
Adolf Hitler became the leader of this political party.
What are the Nazis?
Anne Frank's family attempted to avoid this fate by going into hiding.
What is being sent to a concentration camp?
This is a long speech given by one character that is only heard by the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
These are notes to tell actors how to move, speak, or act.
What are the stage directions?
This is the first and last name of the author of the diary that the play is based on.
Who is Anne Frank?
At the end of Act II Scene 4, the German discovers the Secret Annex. Anne's final diary entry in the play ends with "So, dear Diary, that means I must leave you behind. Good-by for a while. P.S. Please, please, Miep, or Mr. Kraler, or anyone else. If you should find this diary, will you please keep it safe for me, because some day I hope..." What does this soliloquy reveal about Anne's character?
What is that Anne remains hopeful that she will become a writer?
The word "home" has a positive connotation that suggests feelings of this.
What is warmth, safety, or family?
This is a conversation between two or more characters in the play.
What is dialogue?
A play is divided into these large sections.
What are acts?
Anne Frank was born in this country.
What is Germany?
Confined or protected: this word has a more negative connotation.
What is confined?
Mr. Frank is called "gentle" because of this connotation of the word.
What is kind, calm, or caring?
When Anne writes in her dairy, it's considered this kind of dramatic speech.
What is a soliloquy?
Acts in a play are divided into these smaller sections?
What are scenes?
This was the name of the hiding place where Anne's family lived.
What is the Secret Annex?
Hiding, concealing, or sheltering: this word has the most positive connotation.
What is sheltering?
Mrs. Van Daan calls Anne "insolent" rather than "outspoken" because "insolent" has this negative connotation.
What is rude or disrespectful to authority?
This is when the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
This is the written text of a play.
What is a script?
Mr. Van Daan is caught stealing from the food supply within the Secret Annex. Mrs. Frank yells at him, "You're a thief! Get out!". This mood is created by her yelling.
What is a mood of tension or anger?
The play shifts between these two moods to make both moods more powerful and show the complexity of their experiences.
What are moods of fear/tension and hopefulness?
"They realize what they feared has happened. Mrs. Van Daan start to whimper...There is a sound of violent pounding on a door below." This moment shows when the people hiding in the Secret Annex know they have been discovered. The mood shifts to this.
What is hopelessness?