Drama

Question 1

What is conflict?

Answer 1

Conflict may be a problem of a dilemma. It may be a serious disagreement between characters or difficult decision a character faces.

Question 2

What is drama?

Answer 2

Drama is the performance of a story which usually takes place on a stage.

Question 3

What is the setting of a play?

Answer 3

The setting is the time and place in which the story takes place.

Question 4

What is the theme of a play?

Answer 4

The theme of a play is the main message or ideas the playwright wants you to think about.

Question 5

What is scenery?

Answer 5

The scenery is the painted background used to represent a place on a stage or film set.

Question 6

What is tone of voice?

Answer 6

Tone of voice is the way a character says something, e.g.

angry, shocked or sad.

Question 7

Who is the hero of a play?

Answer 7

The hero is the main male character in a play.

Question 8

Who is the villain in a play?

Answer 8

The villain is the ‘baddie’ in the play.

Question 9

What are stage directions?

Answer 9

Stage directions tell us what characters do on stage. They also tell us the characters’ tone of voice.

Question 10

What is the plot of a play?

Answer 10

The plot is the actions and the events in the play and how one thing leads on to another.

Question 11

What are costumes?

Answer 11

Costumes are the clothes the characters wear.

Question 12

What are props?

Answer 12

Props are the movable objects on the stage.

Question 13

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 13

Dramatic irony is when the audience know more than the characters on the stage.

Question 14

What is the most dramatic moment in the play called?

Answer 14

The climax of the play is its most dramatic moment.

Question 15

What do you call the writer of a play?

Answer 15

A playwright

Question 16

What do you call the person who oversees the performance of the play and has overall responsibility for its production?

Answer 16

The director

Question 17

What is an aside?

Answer 17

An aside is when a character speaks to the audience and no other characters on stage are aware of what is said.

Question 18

What is a monologue?

Answer 18

A monologue is a long passage of dialogue spoken by one character.

Question 19

What is a soliloquy?

Answer 19

A soliloquy is a monologue that the character addresses to the audience when no other characters are on stage. Soliloquies tend to reveal a characters inner most thoughts and feelings.

Question 20

What is tension?

Answer 20

Tension is a sense of anticipation or conflict within characters or character relationships, or problems, surprise and mystery in stories and ideas to propel dramatic action and create audience engagement.

Question 21

What is suspense?

Answer 21

Suspense is an uneasy feeling that an audience member gets when she doesn’t know what is going to happen next.

Question 22

Novels tend to be organised into chapters. How are play texts structured?

Answer 22

Play texts are divided into Acts and Scenes.
An act is a part of a play defined by elements such as rising action, climax, and resolution. It is made up of a number of scenes.
A scene normally represents actions happening in one place at one time, and may be marked off from the next scene by a curtain, a black-out, or a brief emptying of the stage.

Question 23

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 23

Foreshadowing is used to give the audience a hint of what is to come later.
Foreshadowing is useful for creating suspense, a feeling of unease, a sense of curiosity, or a mark that things may not be as they seem.

Question 24

What is a flashback?

Answer 24

A flashback is a scene that takes place before a story begins.
Flashbacks interrupt the chronological (time) order to take an audience back in time to the past events in a character’s life

Question 25

Who is the heroine in a play?

Answer 25

A central female character in a play may be called a heroine.