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Drama Flashcards

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Choragos

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Led the chorus

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Chorus

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A group of men

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Drama

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Play is written meant to be performed infront of an audience

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Closet drama

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Meant to be read not performed

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Alene

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Building served as dressing or resting place

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Colonnade

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Line of pillars

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Persona

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Stylized mask

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Protagonist

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Central role and have the largest part

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Prologos

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First part of tragic play “prologue” actor gives information needed to follow play.

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Parados

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Second part, chorus enters and comments on the events presented in prologue

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episodia

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Characters speak to one another on the stage to develop central conflict

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Stasimon

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In which chorus comments on episodias that have previously occurred

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Exodos

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Last scene of play in which play conflict is resolved.

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Town guilds

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Organization of craftsmen who worked in the same profession reacted old and New Testament stories.

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Mystery plays

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Presented on movable stages or on pageants

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Pageants

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Term for wagons

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Morality plays

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Characters represent virtues or vices struggle or debate over the soul of a man.

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Master of revels

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Official who had the power to censor plays and grant licenses for performances

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Groundlings

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Common people

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Hell

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Reached by removing floorboards from stage

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Heavens

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Protected actors from the weather and contained ropes and pulleys used lower props.

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Alcove

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Covered by a curtain allowed actors to appear and disappear when needed

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Rear stage

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Some theaters had these in place of alcove

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Chamber

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Which functioned as a balcony or as any other setting located above the action taking place on the stage below

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Huts

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Windows located above the music gallery, could be used by characters playing lookouts or sentries

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Picture-frame stage

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Resembles stages in which plays are performed today

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Proscenium arch

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Surrounded the opening through which the audience viewed the performance

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Realism

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Improved lighting which revealed inadequacies of painted backdrops

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Surrealistic

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Color and celery mirrored the uncontrolled images of dreams

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Expressionistic stage

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Costumes and scenery where exaggerated and distorted to reflect the workings of a troubled, even unbalanced mind

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Thrust stage

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Area which projects out into the audience

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Arena stage

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Audience surrounding the actors

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Environmental staging

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Stage surrounds audience or several stages are situated at various locations throughout the audience

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Participatory drama

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Takes place I church where a wedding is performed and then a catering hall where the wedding reception is held.

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Tragedy

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Drama treating a serious subject involving persons of significance

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Catharsis

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The way dramatic events unfold

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Hamartia

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Weakeness or a flaw in protagonist

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Hubris

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Narrowness of vision of overwhelming pride

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Irony

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What characters say and what the audience believes

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Dramatic/tragic irony

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Audience knows more about the dramatic situation than the character does

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Cosmic irony

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Also known as iron of fate, occurs when God, fate, or something larger uncontrollable allows characters that they can change their fate

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Catastrophe

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When protagonist acknowledges his downfall

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Pathos

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Exists simple to satisfy the sentimental or morbid sensibilities of the audience

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Unity of action

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When play contains events that lead to tragic outcome

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Unity of place

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Play have a single setting

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Unity of time

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Require play take no longer than actual duration of play, usually a day.

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Tragicomedies

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Serious appropriate for tragedy but end happily, usually sudden turn of events

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Melodrama

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Appeals mainly to emotions

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Realism

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Arose in late 1900th century in response to artificialitites of melodramas

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Naturalism

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Developed along side realism, rejected unrealistic plots

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Comedy

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Treats themes and characters with humor typically a happy ending

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Satire

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Biting humor that diminishes a person, idea, or institution by ridiculing it or holding it up to scorn

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Farce

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Stereotypical character engages in horseplay and slapstick humor

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Romantic comedy

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Love is main subject and idealized heroines and lovers endure great difficulties until the inevitable happy ending is reached

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Comedy of humors

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Focus on characters whose behavior is controlled by a characteristic trait or humour

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Comedy of manners

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Directed satire against characters who violated social conventions and rules of behavior

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Sentimental comedy

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Relies on sentimental emotion rather than on wit or humor to move an audience

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High comedy

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Comedy that appeals to intellect

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Low comedy

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Opposite if high play

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Antihero

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Character that manifests petty or are ineffectual

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Black/dark comedies

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Rely on morbid and the absurd

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Theater of the absurd

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Human condition is irrational

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acts

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What play is devised in

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Stage direction

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Specify characters’ entrance and exits and describe what settings look like and how characters look and act

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Dialogue

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Lines spoken by character

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Monologues

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Extended speeches by one character

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Soliloquies

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Monologue in which a character express private thoughts while alone on stage

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Aside

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Brief comments by a character who reveals thoughts by speaking directly to the audience without being heard by other characters

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Intermission

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A pause in action that can be used to heighten dramatic tension

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One-act play

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Shorter played

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