Trashketball
Drama Unit (Animal
Farm)Review
DLT: I can distinguish the
characteristics of
dramatic literature
Rules of Trashketball
1. Stay in your seats at all times.
2. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the
answer to a question AND
3. Write ONE response to the question on a
sheet of paper.
4. All teams will hold up their answers.
5. If you are correct, your team will get the
opportunity to shoot the correct response
into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line.
6. If the shot is made, the team gets extracredit.
7. Shots will be made after ALL the questions
have been answered.
1
• Q.1)
Describe theme
Answer
The big idea or what the story is about.
2
Q. 2- How is plot described?
Answer
The action or sequence of events
3
What is the point of view in a story, poem,
essay, or drama?
Answer
The point of view comes from the person
who is telling the story, whether it is a
narrator or character
4
What is the definition of fiction?
Answer
Literature in which the plot and
characters are imaginary.
5
When an object stands for or represents
something else, what literary device is the
writer using?
Answer
Symbolism
6
What is the term that is used for good word
choice?
Answer
Diction
7
What is the definition of the
climax of a story?
Answer
The high point of interest or suspense
8
What is the denouement or falling action in
fiction or drama?
Answer
The resolution of the conflict after the
climax in the fiction or drama and thus
providing an outcome to the plot
situation
9
What is dialogue?
Answer
Someone talking within the play or story
set off by quotation marks.
10
Rising action, considering plot and narrative,
is best described as what?
Answer
Events or sequence that build up to the
climax
11
• When a character gives a speech, what
term best describes this?
Answer
• Monologue
12
What term best describes a long speech
expressing the thoughts or feelings by a
character on stage who is trying to make a
decision that is very serious and difficult?
Answer
• Soliloquy
13
• A stage performer may make comments
intended to be heard only by the audience
and supposedly not by the characters.
What do we call this?
Answer
• Aside
14
What kind of comparison is being used in
the phrase “her words fell on me like a
load of bricks”?
Answer
• Simile
15
• Dramatic irony is a particular kind of irony
that involves the character in fiction or
drama. Describe this technique.
Answer
• An event that directly contradicts what is
expected. The readers know something
the character do not.
16
• The following is an example of ______:
The car huffed and puffed all the way up the
hill
Answer
• Personifcation
17
• A character who serves as a contrast or
conflict to another character, similar to
the protagonist, is a _________character.
Answer
• A foil character
18
• What kind of comparison is being used in
the following: “His eyes were piercing
darts into my soul.”
Answer
• Metaphor
19
• What is an allegory?
Answer
The characters stand for virtues and vices.
There is more than 1 level of meaning.
20
• What is a fabel?
Answer
• A story/play that has more than one level
of meaning.
21
Which animals seem to represent ordinary,
decent citizens?
Answer
• Jessie and Muriel
22
• What is the moral of Animal Farm?
Answer
• An idealistic system can easily be
corrupted.
23
Which character symbolizes positive
leadership for the revolution?
Answer
• Snowball
24
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm because
of his…
Answer
• Hatred for injustice and political lying
25
• Which character does not represent a
satirical character :
– Squealer
– Napoleon
– Mr. Jones
– Boxer
Answer
• Boxer
26
• What are the themes for Animal Farm
Answer
• Freedom and individual dignity should be
guarded.
• Weakness can be dominated by strength,
fear, and trickery.
• Vision and hope must be kept alive
• Power corrupts and absolute power
corrupts absolutely.
• Language is a powerful tool, used
improperly it can enslave us.