Chapter 5

Question 1

Tragedy

Answer 1

If the play is serious and ends unhappily.

Question 2

Magnitude

Answer 2

Audience members expect a certain dignity and importance from a tragedy

Question 3

Ethical Choice

Answer 3

Choice about a moral issue

Question 4

Catharsis

Answer 4

Healthy to revoke strong emotions and then let them ebb away.

Question 5

Comedy

Answer 5

A humorous play

Question 6

Situation comedy

Answer 6

As the term suggests, emphasizes the humorous qualities of the situation in which the characters find themselves.

Question 7

Farce

Answer 7

Type of comedy that emphasizes broad physical action.

Question 8

Slapstick

Answer 8

Designate broad comic action; actors in their use of a long flat paddle with the flap that literally made a loud slapping sound when used for comic beatings.

Question 9

Comedy of character

Answer 9

Is driven by the eccentricities of its major figures

Question 10

Comedy of idea

Answer 10

Is focused on thought rather than character or situation

Question 11

Comedy of manners

Answer 11

Explores the behavior of a particular segment of society

Question 12

Romantic Comedy

Answer 12

Follows the attempts of lovers to get together

Question 13

Comic relief

Answer 13

Action created to ease emotional tension or contrast with a major event

Question 14

Tragicomedy

Answer 14

When the tragic in comic tendencies seem equally mixed.

Question 15

Poetic Justice

Answer 15

Good is rewarded, evil is punished

Question 16

Convention

Answer 16

Refers to an agreement between the production personnel and the audience

Question 17

Critical research paper

Answer 17

Must include the ideas of others as well as your own conclusions

Question 18

Genre

Answer 18

Relates to the kind of emotional response to play creates in the audience.