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Chapters 1-3 Flashcards

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Style: definition

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The manner in which a performance depicts the world

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Theatrical conventions: definition

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Rules of conduct that are established and standard in the theater.

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Live theater: definition

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All theater, actor with an audience, and in the present moment

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Ephemeral: definition

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Can not be duplicated; lives, dies, and lives again

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Collaborative: definition

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Produced or conducted by two or more parties; the work being done

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Synthesis: definition

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Different types of art going into work

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House: definition

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The row of seats in which an audience sits

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Empathy: definition

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The audience identifying emotionally with an actor

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Asides: definition

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Short comments that reveal a character’s true state of mind

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Monologue: definition

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Passages from a play for a solo actor

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Fourth wall: definition

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Theatrical convention of an invisible wall that separates the audience from the audience. Has a passive audience

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Realism: definition

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The stage is a believable alternative reality. A movement

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Aesthetic distance: definition

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Ability to observe a work of art with a degree of distance

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Catharsis: definition

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The purging of our aggressive desires through art and enchantment

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Plot: definition

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Ordering structure of the events that take place on stage

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Dramatic structure: definition

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The scaffolding on which a play wright plots take to frame or shape the action

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Point of attack: definition

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The point in the story in which the events take place; main conflict. Is it pre-play?

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Exposition: definition

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Information up to plot

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Climax: definition

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Point of highest emotional intensity in a drama with the following resolution

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Dues ex machine: definition

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“God by machine”; an unexpected resolution that is out of the blue

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Denouncement: definition

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“Unknotting”; brings everything together

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Complication: definition

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Circumstances of a drama building on each other through cause and effect

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Protagonist: definition

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Lead role

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Antagonist: definition

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The opposer of the protagonist

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Dramatic languages: all four parts

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1) advancing plot 2) embody action 3) compress emotion 4) set mood, style, and tone

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Climatic structure definition and important characteristics

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•a tight knit plot created by Aristotle (a Greek classical) •one time, action, and place • small number of actors •small plot •late point of attack

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The well-made play definition and important characteristics

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•created by Aristotle that follows the climatic structure but adds complication •foreshadowing, inciting incident, cliffhanger, crisis, and obligatory scene • mid-1800’s

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Episodic structure definition and important characteristics

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• multiple settings, multiple characters, conflicts, subplots, extended periods of time, and parallel plots • complex and epic •1500’s-1600’s England

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Circular structure definition and important characteristics

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•following WW1 and WW2 when hope was lost • difficult to break a cycle

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Serial structure definition and important characteristics

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•in and out plot where the characters don’t come together •independent scenes

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Structural variation

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•playing with time • can be a characteristic

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Archetype character definition and example

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Characters who are “larger the life” and speak across generations and centuries. Example- Oedipus and medusa

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Psychological character definitional and example

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Characters that are so complex that we can fabricate a preexisting life. Example- willy from death of a sales man

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Stock character definition and example

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Stereotypical characters. Example- the mother in law from everyone loves Raymond

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Characters with a dominate trait and example

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Defined by one trait- too hot, humors. Example- Tibult from Romeo and Juliet

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Depersonalized character definition and example

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Characters searching for meaning “like a teenager”. Example- Beckett

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Deconstructed character definition and example

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Characters who will is broken/ brainwashed/ working in a tightly knitted group. “Peers” “cults” example- cloud 9

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