Drama Terms Quiz
Choose the best answer for each item below. Score an 85% or better and receive 5 Bonus Points toward the next homework or quiz grade! You may take the quiz as many times as you need in order to reach the goal of 85% or better. Read each item carefully before choosing your answer. There are 25 items (worth 4 points each). Don't forget to put your name below before you start!Good luck!
- 1.A tragedy is:
- A.
Mr. Sampson's coffee.
- B.
A humorous play with a happy ending.
- C.
A swarm of black flies.
- D.
A play in which the main character(s) suffer a major downfall.
- E.
None of the above
- 2.A long speech by one character with other characters on stage listening is a:
- A.
Soliloquy
- B.
Meter
- C.
Scansion
- D.
Monologue
- E.
Pun
- 3.Benvolio is to Tybalt as character is to _____________.
- A.
Soliloquy
- B.
Pun
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Rhymed verse
- E.
Foil
- 4.Ordinary spoken or written language is called:
- A.
A pun
- B.
Prose
- C.
A prop
- D.
Imagery
- E.
An aside
- 5.True or False: Dramatic Irony exists when the character knows something that the audience does not know.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.True or False: An aside is a long speech by a character on stage:
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Verse written in unryhmed iambic pentameter is:
- A.
Blank Verse
- B.
Meter
- C.
Rhymed Verse
- D.
Monologue
- E.
Soliloquy
- 8.A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called:
- A.
An aside
- B.
Meter
- C.
Imagery
- D.
A pun
- E.
Prose
- 9.A devise that a playwright uses to present a dramatic performance on stage that the audience accepts as realistic is called:
- A.
Dialogue
- B.
A pun
- C.
A dramatic convention
- D.
Imagery
- E.
None of the above
- 10.A _______________ is a lyric poem of fourteen lines.
- A.
Sonnet
- B.
Pun
- C.
Foil
- D.
Dramatic convention
- E.
Dramatic irony
- 11.________________ introduces the action of a play. It is usually at the beginning and literally means "first words".
- A.
Introduction
- B.
Chorus
- C.
Prologue
- D.
Monologue
- E.
Soliloquy
- 12.A ____________is a long speech by a character on stage with other characters there listening while a ______________ is a long speech by a character who is alone on stage with no other characters listening.
- A.
Soliloquy; monologue
- B.
Monologue; soliloquy
- C.
Dialogue; monologue
- D.
Monologue; dialogue
- E.
None of the above
- 13._______________ is poetry written in rhymed iambic pentameter.
- A.
Blank Verse
- B.
Rhymed Verse
- C.
Prose
- D.
An aside
- E.
None of the above
- 14.A comment by a character that the audience hears but other characters on stage do not is called:
- A.
A pun
- B.
An aside
- C.
Comedic relief
- D.
Poetic justice
- E.
Prose
- 15.Servants in Romeo and Juliet will most likely speak in:
- A.
Blank verse
- B.
Rhymed verse
- C.
Prose
- D.
Poetry
- E.
Iambic pentameter
- 16.When you put lines of Shakespeare's plays in your own words you are:
- A.
"scanning" the lines
- B.
Paraphrasing
- C.
Being an active reader
- D.
Losing the artistic beauty of the poetry as Shakespeare wrote it
- E.
All EXCEPT A apply
- 17.The analysis of rhythm in a line of verse is called:
- A.
Scansion
- B.
Bardoramic versology
- C.
Iambic analysis
- D.
Metric pattern analysis
- E.
None of the above
- 18.In Romeo and Juliet, prose is:
- A.
Used for comic relief
- B.
Spoken by servants
- C.
Spoken by Mercutio
- D.
Ordinary language (not poetry)
- E.
All of the above
- 19.A person or group of people who recite the prologue:
- A.
Choir
- B.
Chorus
- C.
Narrator(s)
- D.
The band
- E.
None of the above
- 20.A(n) __________________ often signals the end of a scene in Romeo and Juliet:
- A.
Verse
- B.
Curtain
- C.
Rhymed couplet
- D.
Image
- E.
Brawl
- 21.Lady Capulet comes to see Juliet in Act III, scene 5 to bring news of the arranged wedding to Paris. She tells Juliet that too much grief and weeping is not good. Then she tells Juliet that she will send a man to Mantua to poison Romeo, which only makes Juliet cry more. This is an example of:
- A.
Dramatic irony
- B.
Monologue
- C.
Scansion
- D.
Imagery
- E.
Verse
- 22.Verse is another word for:
- A.
Line
- B.
Poetry
- C.
Prose
- D.
Bible
- E.
Play
- 23.A rhymed couplet is:
- A.
Hard to cook
- B.
Good with fries and a chocolate shake
- C.
Two consecutive lines of end-rhymed poetry
- D.
Dances at weddings
- E.
None of the above
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