# Drama and play terms

> Grade 8: act and scene, stage directions, dialogue and monologue, soliloquy and aside, cast list.

Source: https://olyclass.com/library/language-g8-drama-terms-en/

- Subject: Reading & writing
- Level: Grade 8
- Practice: 16
- Play it free on one screen (projector, TV or whiteboard): https://olyclass.com/library?play=language-g8-drama-terms-en
- Copy and edit it: https://olyclass.com/library?copy=language-g8-drama-terms-en
- Games it plays well in: [Dare Board](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/dare-board/), [Prize Climb](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/prize-climb/), [Ring the Bell](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/ring-the-bell/), [High Water](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/high-water/)

## Questions

1. What is the name for a main division of a play, often made up of several scenes? (A cast / A prop / An act / An aside)
   Answer: An act
2. In a play, a new scene usually begins when the… (actors change costumes only / audience claps / time or place changes / title is read again)
   Answer: time or place changes
3. A scene is usually a smaller part of an act.
   Answer: True
4. What are the instructions in a script that tell actors how to move or speak? (Cast lists / Chapter titles / Soliloquies / Stage directions)
   Answer: Stage directions
5. In scripts, stage directions are often written in… (brackets or italics / capital titles only / footnotes only / speech marks)
   Answer: brackets or italics
6. What one-word stage direction tells an actor to come onto the stage?
   Answer: Enter
7. What is dialogue in a play? (A conversation between characters / A list of actors / A note about the set / One character speaking alone)
   Answer: A conversation between characters
8. A long speech by one character, spoken to others on stage, is called a… (cast list / dialogue / monologue / scene)
   Answer: monologue
9. A monologue must always be spoken when the character is alone on stage.
   Answer: False
10. A character alone on stage speaks their private thoughts aloud. This is a… (dialogue / prologue / soliloquy / stage direction)
   Answer: soliloquy
11. A short remark to the audience that other characters do not hear is called an… (act / aside / epilogue / interval)
   Answer: aside
12. Who is meant to hear an aside while the other characters on stage do not?
   Answer: The audience
13. What does a cast list show? (The characters and the actors who play them / The costumes and props / The order of the scenes / The theatre's seating plan)
   Answer: The characters and the actors who play them
14. Which line would you expect to find in a cast list? (Act 2, Scene 1 / Exit Tom, left / The curtain rises at noon / Tom – played by Ana Cruz)
   Answer: Tom – played by Ana Cruz
15. The word 'cast' can mean all the actors in a play.
   Answer: True
16. What word names the written text of a play, including dialogue and stage directions?
   Answer: A script