First oral exam

Question 1

chorus has moment alone with the audience

Answer 1

Parabasis

Question 2

Characters include members of the community

Answer 2

old comedy

Question 3

Not limited to three actors

Answer 3

old comedy

Question 4

large chorus

Answer 4

old comedy

Question 5

aristophanes

Answer 5

old comedy

Question 6

Period of transition and experimentation in the 4th century

Answer 6

middle comedy

Question 7

alexis

Answer 7

middle comedy

Question 8

stock characters

Answer 8

new comedy

Question 9

Restricted set of personality traits
Consistent plot function
Consistent social role
Consistent names

Answer 9

stock characters

Question 10

No more obscenities, personal, or political attacks

Answer 10

new comedy

Question 11

Focuses on domestic life, love, marriage, and money

Answer 11

new comedy

Question 12

menander

Answer 12

new comedy

Question 13

written 100 years after the golden age of greek theatre

Answer 13

poetics

Question 14

philosophical consideration of beauty and other artistic principles

Answer 14

Aesthetics

Question 15

humans are by nature prone to engage in the creation of likeness and to respond to likeness with pleasure

Answer 15

imitation

Question 16

“An imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play, in the form of action, not of narrative, through pity and fear affecting the proper purgation of these emotions”

Answer 16

definition of tragedy

Question 17

6 elements of tragedy

Answer 17

Plot
Character
Diction
Thought
Song
Spectacle

Question 18

Reversal of plot

Answer 18

Peripeteia

Question 19

messenger arrives to deliver news, recognition

Answer 19

Anagnorisis

Question 20

How things are said

Answer 20

diction

Question 21

What is said

Answer 21

thought

Question 22

city where antigone takes place

Answer 22

thebes

Question 23

the effect of tragedy is

Answer 23

pity and fear

Question 24

author of antigone

Answer 24

sophocles

Question 25

author of medea

Answer 25

euripides

Question 26

building behind greek stage

Answer 26

skene

Question 27

where audience sits

Answer 27

theatron

Question 28

great dionysia is where?

Answer 28

athens

Question 29

exessive pride

Answer 29

hubris

Question 30

playwright who introduced second actor

Answer 30

aescuylus

Question 31

order of playwrights

Answer 31

1. Aeschylus 2. Sophocles 3. Euripides

Question 32

entrance of greek chorus

Answer 32

parados

Question 33

6th century BCE figure who stepped out of the chorus to preform as a character. Credited with invention of tragedy

Answer 33

thespis

Question 34

author of the trojan women

Answer 34

euripides

Question 35

triangular scenic device that allow quick changes

Answer 35

periaktoi

Question 36

city where medea takes place

Answer 36

corinth

Question 37

unity of action means

Answer 37

no subplots