Short Answers and Listing

Question 1

Five Parts of a Greek Drama

Answer 1

Prologue, Parados, Paradoi, Stasima, Exodus

Question 2

Definition of a Tragedy

Answer 2

is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable acces­sories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with in­cidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions

Question 3

The Unities

Answer 3

Time, Place, Action

Question 4

Parts of a Plot

Answer 4

Recognition, Reversal, Suffering

Question 5

Six Elements of a Tragedy

Answer 5

Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Music, Spectacle

Question 6

Kinds of Recognition

Answer 6

Tokens or signs, contrived by the poet, through memory, through inferance

Question 7

Definition of a Tragic Hero

Answer 7

When someone falls from greatness to depravity because of a flaw inside themselves

Question 8

Aims of Characterization

Answer 8

characters should: be good and able to make good choices, true and appropriate/ rue to type, true to life, consistant

Question 9

America’s Contribution

Answer 9

Musical Theater, Showboats, Minsteral shows, Burlesque, Vaudville

Question 10

America’s Four Theater Centers

Answer 10

New York, Philidelphia, Boston, and Charleston