Drama

Question 1

Stage directions

Answer 1

the words in a printed text of the play that informs the people involved in the play how to stage, perform or imagine the play.

Question 2

Genre

Answer 2

A category of works that share the same features, and conventions

Question 3

Conventions

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Characteristic features of a literary genre

Question 4

In character

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Characters speaking as if they are really the people they play in the drama

Question 5

Indirect characterization

Answer 5

When a characters’ traits are revealed implicitly through speech, thoughts, appearance etc.

Question 6

One act play

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A play in which the action unfolds continuously, and in one place and time.

Question 7

Proscenium stage

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Type of theatre where the stage is divided from the audience by an arch (a proscenium)

Question 8

Thrust stage

Answer 8

Stage design that allows the audience to sit on three sides from the major acting area

Question 9

Arena stage

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Stage design in which the audience is seated around the acting area. Actors make their entrances and exits through the auditorium

Question 10

Amphitheatre

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Type of theatre consisting of a stage area surrounded by a semicircle of seats

Question 11

Orchestra

Answer 11

In Classical Greek theatre, a semicircular area used mostly for dancing by the chorus

Question 12

Skene

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A low building in the back of a stage area in Classical Greek theatre, which represented a temple or palace

Question 13

Set

Answer 13

The design, decoration and scenery of the stage during a play

Question 14

Props

Answer 14

In drama, an object used on stage

Question 15

Classical unities

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Three principles of structure that require a play to have one plot that occurs in one plays, within one day

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Dramatic irony

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When there is a gap between what the audience knows and what a character expects or believes

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Situational irony

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When a character has an expectation that is reversed or fulfilled in an unexpected way

Question 18

Verbal irony

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When a word or expression means something different than what it appears to mean

Question 19

Monologue

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A long, uninterrupted speech, spoken by one person

Question 20

Drama

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A literary genre consisting of works that are performed before an audience by an actor or actors playing the characters

Question 21

Soliloquy

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A monologue in which the character is alone on stage and thinks out loud

Question 22

Aside

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Character speaks directly to the audience, without the speech being registered

Question 23

Dialogue

Answer 23

Usually, words spoken by characters in a literary work