8th Grade Drama Test

Question 1

What do you call a brief comment made by a character to the audience?

Accepted Answer

aside

Question 2

What information do stage directions NOT tell you?

Accepted Answer

what a character says

Question 3

What's a trait that brings down the hero's own destruction?

Accepted Answer

tragic flaw

Question 4

Which of the following literary elements is unique to drama?

Accepted Answer

stage directions

Question 5

What describes the constructions that suggest the time and place of the action of a play?

Accepted Answer

set

Question 6

What do we call the author of a drama?

Accepted Answer

playwright

Question 7

What do we call the words characters speak TO EACH OTHER?

Accepted Answer

dialogue

Question 8

What's the written text of a drama?

Accepted Answer

script

Question 9

What is a drama?

Accepted Answer

a story meant to be performed

Question 10

What do we call a LONG speech that a character delivers alone on stage?

Accepted Answer

soliloquy

Question 11

What is a long speech by one character TO OTHER CHARACTERS?

Accepted Answer

monologue

Question 12

What is the conflict in a drama?

Accepted Answer

the problem characters face

Question 13

What would be the most likely ending of a tragedy?

Accepted Answer

a death

Question 14

What do we call characters that have both strengths and weaknesses?

Accepted Answer

complex characters

Questions 14