Terms for Drama Quiz
Quiz by Jennifer Batey
High School
English IV (2017)
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- Q1An ______ is a subdivision of a play.chaptersceneactstage30s
- Q2Those that view the play and should be responsive to the actions and feelings portrayed in the play are called______actorscrowdpeopleaudience30s
- Q3lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audienceasidesoliloquydialoguemonologue30s
- Q4__________a scene in a story or play which is intended to relieve the audience from tension or heightened emotion after and just before tragic or serious scenes.plotmelodramaclimaxcomic relief30s
- Q5A subdivision of an act in a play is called ahistorytragedycomedyscene30s
- Q6________a work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audiencetragedycomedydramahistory30s
- Q7_______ is the central idea presented in the play - a message about life, society, or human nature.atmospheremoodthemeOption 430s
- Q8A gentler way of saying something, when stating the truth is difficult.euphemismpersonificationoxymoronhyperbole30s
- Q9when the audience/reader knows something that the characters do not know.verbal ironysituational ironydramatic irony30s
- Q10a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but actually makes sense in the text.paradoxpathetic fallacyoxymoron30s
- Q11a character who changes throughout a storyfoildramatic characterstatic charactercomedic charater30s
- Q12thoughts spoken aloud by a character when he/she is alone or thinks he/she is alonesoloioquyasidemonologuedialogue30s
- Q13a character that is the opposite of another character.antagonistprotagonistdramatic characterfoil30s
- Q14a character who remains the same throughout a story.static characterfoildramatic characterantagonist30s
- Q15figure of speech that combines contradictory termsoxymoronsimilehyperboleparadox30s