Singapore O-Level Drama (SEAB 2299) elements of drama quiz: focus, tension, mood, atmosphere, role, character, space, levels, tableau, symbol and contrast quiz

How brightly the stage is lit

Where the audience's attention is directed at a given moment

The concentration of a single actor

The main theme of the play

Having everyone speak at once

Dimming the whole stage equally

Stillness and silence around the focal figure while they move or speak

Spreading all performers evenly across the space

The volume of the actors' voices

The number of characters on stage

The physical strength needed for a role

The sense of unease, anticipation or suspense that keeps an audience watching

By slowing the pace, withholding information and delaying resolution

By speeding everything up and revealing all information at once

By adding more actors to the stage

By increasing the lighting brightness

They mean exactly the same thing

Atmosphere is the wider emotional climate of a scene or piece; mood is the feeling of a particular moment

Mood is created by design and atmosphere only by acting

Atmosphere applies only to comedies

Keeping the same feeling for the entire piece

Changing the mood every few seconds at random

Establishing one feeling fully, then breaking it at a clear pivot by flipping every channel at once

Leaving the mood for the audience to imagine with no support

A character always speaks more lines

There is no difference

A role is always the lead and a character is always minor

A character is a fuller person with wants, history and a consistent signature, built from a role by adding detail

Giving each role its own distinct signature of voice and body, repeated whenever it returns

Wearing the same costume for each

Playing them all with the same voice for consistency

Never letting the roles appear in the same scene

The proximity of the stage to the audience only

The meaningful distance between performers, read as relationship and status

The proportions of the set design

The speed at which actors move

Higher reads as weaker, lower as stronger

Levels have no effect on status

Higher usually reads as powerful or authoritative, lower as weaker or vulnerable

Only the centre of the stage shows status

By showing the same moment from three angles

By replacing all dialogue permanently

By freezing three different plays at once

By capturing a beginning situation, a turning point and an outcome in sequence

Bold, uncluttered body shapes, clear levels, telling proxemics and committed stillness

As many performers and props as possible

Constant small movements to keep it lively

Facing entirely upstage for mystery

By a character explaining what it means

Through repetition, the way characters treat it, focus and placement, and the action attached to it

By being the most expensive prop available

Automatically, because all props are symbols

Because it fills time on stage

Because it removes the need for design

Because placing opposites side by side makes each stand out more sharply and clarifies meaning

Because it only works in tragedy

By hiding the symbolic object from the audience

By keeping the symbol identical to its surroundings

By using as many symbols as possible at once

By sharpening a symbolic object with contrast, such as something bright in darkness or clean in squalor

Because the term lets you analyse how an effect was made, attached to a specific moment and an audience effect

Because long words always impress markers

Because it lets you avoid giving examples

Because it replaces the need to discuss the audience