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Midterm Flashcards

1
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give background information to the audience about the setting and the characters of the story.

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Exposition

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starts the action of a story, and sets the main question readers want to know.

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Inciting Action

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series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension. All decisions, characters’ flaws, and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax.

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Rising Action

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turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given.

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Climax

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5
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main problem of the story resolves

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Falling Action

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6
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final resolution or clarification

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Denouement

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7
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influences from classical and commedia made in 20th century

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physical theatre

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8
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originated from naturalism

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realism

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originated in 40s-60s

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absurdism

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cultural movement initially in poetry and painting, originated in Germany in 20th century

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expressionism

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close to real life, direct attention to physical and philosophic problems of social and psychological existence

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realism

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victims of forces larger than themselves , confronted with rapidly accelerating world

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realism

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playwrights unafraid to present characters as ordinary, impotent and unable to reach answers to their predicaments

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realism

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14
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aim: identify with plot/situation

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realism

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15
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anti realistic in seeing truth lying within man.

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expressionism

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16
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outward appearance on stage can be distorted and unrealistic to portray an eternal truth

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expressionism

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17
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dramatizes spiritual awakening/suffering of central character and struggle against social class values/established authority

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expressionism

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18
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present world in subjective perspective distorting for emotional effect

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expressionism

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movement/speech heightened expansive or clipped/telegraphic

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expressionism

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20
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aim: spectacle, illusion, experience

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expressionism

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21
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human existence has no purpose

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absurdism

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22
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irrational illogical speech ends with silence

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absurdism

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23
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broad comedy mixed with horrific tragic images

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absurdism

24
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hopeless situations repetitive meaningless actions

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absurdism

25
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combines imagination of audience and performer

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physical theatre

26
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first theatre critic.

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Aristotle

27
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defined genres and created the end all/be all definitions of each type. What made them good? What made them bad? Broke theatre into 2 categories: tragedy and comedy.

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Aristotle

28
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19th Century

a. Comte, Freud, Marx, Darwin
b. Chekhov, Stanislavsky, MAT, The Cherry Orchard
c. Ibsen, A Doll House

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realism

29
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a. WWI, Existentialism, Sartre; WWII, Beckett, Waiting for Godot
b. Theatre of Cruelty, Artaud

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Absurdism

30
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Historical in nature

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epic

31
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Covers multiple continents and generations

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epic

32
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Story begins in the middle and then moves forward and what happened in the past is revealed in conversation or in flashbacks

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epic

33
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Huge cast of characters

It is not just a really long movie/play

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epic

34
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(good vs evil. Plays to stereotypes. Resolution at the end: good wins, bad punished.) Boy gets girl in end

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melodrama

35
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Characters fit into preconceived ideas of societal roles and positions

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melodrama

36
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Musicals fit this usually examples: Beauty and the Beast, Oklahoma, Law and Order, NCIS, Pirates of the Caribbean

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melodrama

37
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imitation of characters of a lower type. About common people and common problems.

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comedy

38
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types of comedy

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a. Subsections: Farce (foolish and silly),
b. Romantic Comedy,
c. Black Comedy (dark twisted events that we find humor in) i.e. (Heathers, Zoo Story, the movies or plays that seem twisted yet funny),
d. High Comedy (Wilde & Moliere),
e. Low Comedy (Satyr plays & Commedia dell’arte),
f. Satire (makes fun of a specific thing/class/political activity)

39
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Believed that purpose was to instill pity and fear in the audiences.

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tragedy

40
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elements of tragedy

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a. Tragic Flaw
b. Catharsis – emotional purgation or the moment at which there is complete emotional release/connection to what is happening
c. Oedipus
d. Tragedy happened to the wealthy and the rich – about earth shattering issues.
Reasoning: When bad things happen to the wealthy and important, it affects everyone equally. Aristotle said tragedy can’t happen to the poor.

41
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unifying vision for the design elements of a stage play. It is based upon careful interpretation of the script, or the act of drawing out and communicating underlying meaning from a creative work.

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production concept

42
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theatrical form presenting factual information on current events to a popular audience

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living news paper

43
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group of actors who described and commented upon the main action of a play with song, dance, and recitation.

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chorus

44
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seating area section of an ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine theater. one of the earliest and most pronounced parts of ancient theaters

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theatron

45
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resolve complicated or even seemingly hopeless situations in the plots of their plays. The phrase is loosely translated as “god from the machine.”

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Deus ex machina

46
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documentary theatre- 20th century

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verbatim

47
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constructed from precise words spoken by people interviewed about an event/topic

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verbatim theatre

48
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not written in traditional sense, but conceived collected and collated

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verbatim

49
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aim: seek to achieve a degree of authority akin to that represented by the news. to give meaning/ viewpoint to challenging situations

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verbatim

50
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a branch of philosophy that deals with beauty and taste

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aesthetics

51
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the expression to describe a reader’s encounter with
supernatural poetry.

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suspension of disbelief

52
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the decision by an audience member to put aside any
doubts about the narrative being presented. In other words, the audience chooses to believe as long as the actors hold up their end of the bargain
and support the established reality

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suspension of disbelief

53
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emotional purgation or the moment at which there is complete emotional release/connection to what is happening

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Catharsis

54
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What is the purpose of love for the fence?

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Rose sees the fence as something positive and necessary. Bono observes that Rose wants the fence built to hold in her loved ones. To Rose, a fence is a symbol of her love and her desire for a fence indicates that Rose represents love and nurturing.

55
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fence representation

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Troy and Cory think fence is a drag and reluctantly work on finishing Rose’s project. Bono also observes that to some people, fences keep people out and push people away. Bono indicates that Troy pushes Rose away from him by cheating on her. Troy’s lack of commitment to finishing the fence parallels his lack of commitment in his marriage.

56
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Fence in terms of death

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The fence appears finished in final scene when Troy dies and family reunites. The wholeness of the fence comes to mean the strength of the Maxson family and ironically the strength of the man who tore them apart, who also brings them together one more time, in death.

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