Test 1

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What is origins or efficient cause

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Whence of the play or where it came from

Question 1

The four causes

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Origins, purpose, elements, and content

Question 2

Purpose or final cause

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Why of the play. What is the author trying to accomplish

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Material cause or elements

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Actual artistic tools the writer uses or the what of the play

Question 4

Plot

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Sequence of events

Question 5

Linear vs nonlinear structure

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Linear- chronological order

Non- not in order which could include flash backs and etc

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Formal cause or content

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Content of the play what it is trying to show us.

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Content includes 4 things

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Intellectual, metaphysical, philosophical, and structural

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Elements can include

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Setting, characters, language, and plot

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Intellectual

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What comes first to mind. The theme or message

Question 10

Metaphysical

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Deep vision or deep nature of reality or the isms

Question 11

Philosophical

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Authors attitude about nature or reality or genre

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Structural

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Actual choices made to create the play

Question 13

What is a story

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A series of events that we hear about. A story is a narrative that tells is what happened. It is contained by the plot but gives the back story that the plot cannot explain

Question 14

What did the French create

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The unites which include the constraints of time place and action
24 hours
Single location
1 significant action

Question 15

Dramatic action

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A specific event that occurs over a limited time in which a significant change occurs

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Nature of change four levels

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Physical, mental, social, symbolic

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Physical level

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Change that take place on the physical level involve the state or condition that our bodies are in

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Mental level

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Shows how a character comes to think about things in a new way ‘making a decision’

Question 19

Social level

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Plays examine the ways in which characters various kinds of relationships change

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Symbolic level

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Deeper levels of meaning to a change

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Six elements of a play

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Plot
Characters
Theme
Language 
Music
Spectacle

Question 22

What is thought or theme

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Intellectual content which is contained within speeches of characters

Question 23

Incidents within a plot are either similar or different in four ways

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Mood- roller coaster, Setting- chosen for reason symbolic, characters- change in character recipe, and ideas- overarching idea we need high variation

Question 24

Plays should be static true or false

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False change is necessary to make an interesting play

Question 25

Who created the play format diagram

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Gustav Freytag

Question 26

This type of play followed the pyramid format

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Well made plays

Question 27

Dramatic action which is the passage through events. List these events

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- State of equilibrium - Inciting incident which includes the point of attack which is trying to answer the central question - rising action which includes obstacles - climax which has a recognition and reversal - falling action or resolution to denouement - ends with new state of equilibrium

Question 28

Conflicts arise between who

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Man and himself Man against man Man against society Man against god

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What is an Inciting incident

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Event that throws the world out of normal balance

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Who is the Agent of action

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Protagonist, moves action forward

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Character goal

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Inner goal, why he wants to get it

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Story goal

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Outer goal,what the character wants to get

Question 33

MDQ

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Major dramatic question refers to the particular thread of action that forms the running core of the play

Question 34

What do strategies show

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Characters might have several choices but the choice they make tells us about the character and about the play we are in

Question 35

Where do obstacles come from?

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``` A new character who wasn't expected Some act of nature Something that slows or rushes the agent of action New information Pg 54 ```

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Obstacles present what which forces what

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Present crisis which forces a new strategy

Question 37

Clinic two things occur and explain

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Reversal- turns it in opposite direction | Recognition- character sees true meaning

Question 38

Strategy, obstacle, crisis

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S- plan or method of getting the job done O- force or something that makes the job harder C- moment or point in the story at which obstacle collides with strategy.

Question 39

This aspect determines what kind of people the characters are

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Literal aspect

Question 40

This aspect explains what roles the characters perform in the structure of the play

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Functional aspect

Question 41

This aspect explains the ideas or concepts that might be symbolized

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Connotative aspect

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Person who stands in the way of the agent of action from achieving their goals

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Antagonist

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Character whom another character confides in or delivers information

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Confident

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Concept of comparing and contrasting characters to bring out their personality and meaning of play

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Foil

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Character is the spokes person of author

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Raisonneur

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Character who moves plot forward when no other way

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Utilitarian

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Character is used to lighten the mood

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Comic relief

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Connotative aspect

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Characters are seen as symbols or something larger

Question 49

The element through which a plays events are communicated

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Language

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Physiologic signs to convey ones self is

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Body language

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Sounds words make when you speak them

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Euphonics

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Word is it's prescribed dictionary type definition it is objective

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Denotation

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A whole layer of associations, ideas, or attitudes that are often attached to a word and varies from person to person

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Connotation

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B or p conveyed with power

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Plosives

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M or n conveyed with softness

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Labials

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S or z also soft

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Sibilants

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Ng, k, and some r covey quickness

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Gutturals

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T or d conveyed sharp

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Labildentals

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When vowel sounds are similar to each other

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Assonance

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Last accented syllables contain same vowels prefaced by different consonants

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Rhyme

Question 61

When the vowel sounds of words are different. Creating disharmony

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Dissonance

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Words are related to each other through consonants

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Alliteration

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2 syllables unstressed followed by stressed

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Iambic

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2 syllables stressed flowed by unstressed

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Trochaic

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3 syllables 2 unstressed then 1 stressed

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Anapestic

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3 syllables 1 stressed then 2 unstressed

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Dactyl

Question 67

Line with three feet of iambs

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Iambic trimeter

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Line with four feet iambic

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Iambic tetrameter

Question 69

Five footed line iambic is

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Iambic pentameter