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Test 1 Flashcards

0
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What is origins or efficient cause

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Whence of the play or where it came from

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The four causes

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Origins, purpose, elements, and content

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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

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4
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Plot

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Sequence of events

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5
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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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7
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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

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Metaphysical

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Deep vision or deep nature of reality or the isms

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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

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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

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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

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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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16
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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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18
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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’

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19
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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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21
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Six elements of a play

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Plot
Characters
Theme
Language 
Music
Spectacle
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22
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What is thought or theme

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Intellectual content which is contained within speeches of characters

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23
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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

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24
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Plays should be static true or false

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False change is necessary to make an interesting play

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25
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Who created the play format diagram

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Gustav Freytag

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26
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This type of play followed the pyramid format

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Well made plays

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27
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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
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28
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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

30
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Who is the Agent of action

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Protagonist, moves action forward

31
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Character goal

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Inner goal, why he wants to get it

32
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Story goal

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Outer goal,what the character wants to get

33
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MDQ

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

34
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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

35
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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 
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36
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Obstacles present what which forces what

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Present crisis which forces a new strategy

37
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Clinic two things occur and explain

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Reversal- turns it in opposite direction

Recognition- character sees true meaning

38
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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.

39
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This aspect determines what kind of people the characters are

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Literal aspect

40
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This aspect explains what roles the characters perform in the structure of the play

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Functional aspect

41
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This aspect explains the ideas or concepts that might be symbolized

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Connotative aspect

42
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Person who stands in the way of the agent of action from achieving their goals

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Antagonist

43
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Character whom another character confides in or delivers information

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Confident

44
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Concept of comparing and contrasting characters to bring out their personality and meaning of play

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Foil

45
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Character is the spokes person of author

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Raisonneur

46
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Character who moves plot forward when no other way

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Utilitarian

47
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Character is used to lighten the mood

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Comic relief

48
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Connotative aspect

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Characters are seen as symbols or something larger

49
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The element through which a plays events are communicated

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Language

50
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Physiologic signs to convey ones self is

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Body language

51
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Sounds words make when you speak them

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Euphonics

52
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Word is it’s prescribed dictionary type definition it is objective

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Denotation

53
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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

54
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B or p conveyed with power

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Plosives

55
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M or n conveyed with softness

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Labials

56
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S or z also soft

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Sibilants

57
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Ng, k, and some r covey quickness

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Gutturals

58
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T or d conveyed sharp

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Labildentals

59
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When vowel sounds are similar to each other

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Assonance

60
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Last accented syllables contain same vowels prefaced by different consonants

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Rhyme

61
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When the vowel sounds of words are different. Creating disharmony

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Dissonance

62
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Words are related to each other through consonants

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Alliteration

63
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2 syllables unstressed followed by stressed

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Iambic

64
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2 syllables stressed flowed by unstressed

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Trochaic

65
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3 syllables 2 unstressed then 1 stressed

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Anapestic

66
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3 syllables 1 stressed then 2 unstressed

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Dactyl

67
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Line with three feet of iambs

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Iambic trimeter

68
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Line with four feet iambic

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Iambic tetrameter

69
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Five footed line iambic is

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Iambic pentameter

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