Chapters 1-3

Question 0

Style: definition

Answer 0

The manner in which a performance depicts the world

Question 1

Theatrical conventions: definition

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Live theater: definition

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Ephemeral: definition

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Collaborative: definition

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Synthesis: definition

Answer 5

Different types of art going into work

Question 6

House: definition

Answer 6

The row of seats in which an audience sits

Question 7

Empathy: definition

Answer 7

The audience identifying emotionally with an actor

Question 8

Asides: definition

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Monologue: definition

Answer 9

Passages from a play for a solo actor

Question 10

Fourth wall: definition

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Realism: definition

Answer 11

The stage is a believable alternative reality. A movement

Question 12

Aesthetic distance: definition

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Catharsis: definition

Answer 13

The purging of our aggressive desires through art and enchantment

Question 14

Plot: definition

Answer 14

Ordering structure of the events that take place on stage

Question 15

Dramatic structure: definition

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Point of attack: definition

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Exposition: definition

Answer 17

Information up to plot

Question 18

Climax: definition

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Dues ex machine: definition

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Denouncement: definition

Answer 20

“Unknotting”; brings everything together

Question 21

Complication: definition

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Protagonist: definition

Answer 22

Lead role

Question 23

Antagonist: definition

Answer 23

The opposer of the protagonist

Question 24

Dramatic languages: all four parts

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Climatic structure definition and important characteristics

Answer 25

•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

Question 26

The well-made play definition and important characteristics

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Episodic structure definition and important characteristics

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Circular structure definition and important characteristics

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Serial structure definition and important characteristics

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Structural variation

Answer 30

•playing with time • can be a characteristic

Question 31

Archetype character definition and example

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Psychological character definitional and example

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Stock character definition and example

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Characters with a dominate trait and example

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Depersonalized character definition and example

Answer 35

Characters searching for meaning "like a teenager". Example- Beckett

Question 36

Deconstructed character definition and example

Answer 36

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