Ch.2 Drama & Film

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

Structure of a story, provides the basic framework for drama and temporal unfolding

Question 2

Causal Plots

Answer 2

Contains the four principle sections, exposition, complication, climax, and resolution

Question 3

Episodic Plot

Answer 3

Presents a succession of events that don’t directly build one to the next, often function as brief subplots.
Odyssey, Don Quixote, Gulliver’s Travels

Question 4

Linear

Answer 4

Maintaining strict chronological order

Question 5

Non-Linear

Answer 5

Incorporates logical and illogical time jumps

Question 6

Epic

Answer 6

Long string of complications with a number of climaxes

Question 7

Protagonist

Answer 7

The main character, story told from their perspective

Question 8

Antagonist

Answer 8

Principal adversary to the protagonist, sets conflicts in motion.

Question 9

Mise-en-scene

Answer 9

The framed picture being presented to the audience.

Question 10

Omniscient POV

Answer 10

A narrative film shot so that it is viewed by an objective observer, allowing audience to know more than an individual character

Question 11

Subjective POV

Answer 11

Seeing through the eyes of a character.

Question 12

Postproduction

Answer 12

Film given its final shape through editing

Question 13

Editing

Answer 13

Shots created filming are joined together

Question 14

Shot

Answer 14

An uninterrupted length of film

Question 15

Cut

Answer 15

The precise moment when one shot ends and another begins. Separates changes in scenes.

Question 16

Crosscutting

Answer 16

The altering of shots from two or more sequences.

Question 17

Montage

Answer 17

Section of film comprising a number of brief shots edited together to show a series of events.