Drama Terms Quiz
Name ____________________
Circle the correct answer
1.
Left of the stage from the actor's point of view
•
upstage
•
downstage
•
stage left
•
stage right
2. the audience knows something that a character does not know
•
monologue
•
pun
•
aside
•
dramatic irony
3. a drama that ends in catastrophe for the main character and often for others
• melodrama
• comedy
• history
• tragedy
4. a character's remark, either to the audience or to another character that others on stage are
not supposed to hear
• monologue
• pun
• aside
• dramatic irony
5. a single person speaking alone on stage- with or without an audience.
• aside
• melodrama
• monologue
• tragedy
6. the intoductory section of a play in which time, place, characters, and situation are presented
• setting
• inciting force
• rising action
• climax
7. important central idea presented by the play
• act
• plot
• theme
• catastrophe
8. the hero or leading character with whom the audience sympathizes
• hero
• protagonist
• antagonist
• actor
9. person whose function it is to communicate words and emotions to an audience
• hero
• protagonist
• actor
• mime
10. A parody
• directly copies another work of literature, drama, or art
• is intended to be serious
• is the same as a pun
• imitates another work for the purpose of making fun