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Correct Punctuation Of Dialogue And Stage Directions In Drama. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Character names before the colon in dialogue should be rendered this way:
a) However you feel like writing them
b) Title Case
c) Sentence case
d) ALL CAPITAL LETTERS

JOHN: Stop that? JOAN: Stop what? -- is an example of this:
a) dialogue
b) stage directions
c) comedy
d) setting

Stage directions plus what make up a scene
a) costumes
b) hair and makeup
c) dialogue
d) comedy

Which item is indicated by parenthesis?
a) dialogue
b) setting
c) stage directions
d) comedy and tragedy

What goes before the colon in dialogue?
a) Setting
b) The character's name who is saying the lines
c) Stage directions
d) Anything you like

Every scene in a drama contains these two things:
a) popcorn and butter
b) comedy and tragedy
c) dialogue and stage directions
d) peanut butter and jelly

The word *said* is needed to indicate dialogue.
a) No; only the colon is needed after a character's name.
b) Yes, include the word said
c) Include the word said if you are fond of it
d) Flip a coin to determine whether it is needed

Every line of dialogue must have stage directions to accompany it
a) True
b) False
c) Mars is bright tonight
d) My pencil tastes like chicken

(flaps arms wildly) is an example of
a) dialogue
b) stage directions
c) drama
d) comedy

What a character says is called:
a) dialogue
b) stage directions
c) setting
d) drama

What a character says should be followed by what character?
a) semicolon
b) colon
c) period
d) exclamation mark

What a character does or how a character says his or her lines is called:
a) dialogue
b) setting
c) stage directions
d) comedy

In a drama, stage directions should be surrounded by what character/s?
a) stage directions do not need to be surrounded by any special characters
b) periods
c) commas
d) parenthesis

The parenthesis characters that surround stage directions look like this:
a) ( )
b) ! !
c) : :
d) * *

If our character's name is Sally, her name will be written like this before the colon:
a) SaLlY
b) sally
c) Sally
d) SALLY

(frowns and throws book down) is an example of
a) drama
b) dialogue
c) stage directions
d) comedy

The colon that follows a name before what an actor says looks like this
a) (
b) !
c) :
d) ?

In dialogue, characters always speak in complete sentences and never in fragments.
a) Definitely true
b) True
c) Most possibly true
d) Only if they are robots.

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