Post Drama Unit Assessment

Question 1

A humorous work of drama

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Comedy

Question 2

Delivered directly to the audience without any other characters overhearing

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Aside

Question 3

A division of an act into smaller parts

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Scene

Question 4

Consonant sound repeated in words that are in close proximity; can appear anywhere in the words

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Consonance

Question 5

Makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things using like or as

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Simile

Question 6

Descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world

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Imagery

Question 7

Main character of a work of literature; often “the good guy” at odds with a villain

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Protagonist

Question 8

Phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes

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Onomatopoeia

Question 9

Division within a play, much like chapters of a novel

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Act

Question 10

A restatement of speech or writing that retains the basic meaning while changing the words

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Paraphrase

Question 11

A work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience

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Drama

Question 12

Repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words

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Assonance

Question 13

Main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work

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Theme

Question 14

A list of characters presented before the action begins

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Cast

Question 15

Lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience

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Aside

Question 16

When the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know

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Dramatic Irony

Question 17

Speech that one character delivers aloud to another character.

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Monologue

Question 18

Repetition of same consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to each other

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Alliteration

Question 19

A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs of two syllables each

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iambic pentameter

Question 20

Serious work of drama in which the hero suffers catastrophe, usually because of his own actions

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Tragedy

Question 21

Speech that a character makes in a work of drama only to him or herself

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Soliloquy

Question 22

Attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work’s central theme or subject

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Tone

Question 23

Which of these describes a rhyme scheme?

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AABBAABB

Question 24

Character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction

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Tragic Hero

Question 25

What puts a pause into a poem?

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Comma

Question 26

Projection of characteristics that normally belong only to humans onto inanimate objects, etc.

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Personification

Question 27

Conversation between two or more characters

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dialogue

Question 28

Asserts a correlation or resemblance between two things that are otherwise unrelated

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Metaphor

Question 29

The audience knows something that some characters in the narrative do not.

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Dramatic Irony

Question 30

Italicized comments that identify parts of the setting or use of props or costumes

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Stage Direction

Question 31

A long speech spoken by a character to another character, or to the audience

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monologue

Question 32

Character or force that presents an obstacle or is in direct conflict with the protagonist

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Antagonist

Question 33

Attribute of a character that ultimately leads to their demise

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Tragic Flaw

Question 34

Psychological struggle within the mind of a character

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Internal Conflict

Question 35

Reversal of the syntactically correct order of subjects, verbs, and objects in a sentence

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Inversion

Post Drama Unit Assessment

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Post Drama Unit Assessment

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