THEATRE TERMS

Question 1

Tragedy

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A serious drama or other literary work in which conflict between a protagonist and a superior force concludes in disaster for the protagonist.

Question 2

Comedy

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The genre of dramatic literature that deals with a light or the amusing or with the serious and profound in a light, familiar, or static manner.

Question 3

Tragicomedy

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A drama combining the qualities of tragedy and comedy.

Question 4

Melodrama

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In theatre, a genre characterized by stereotype characters, implausible plots, and emphasis on spectacle

Question 5

Performance Art

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A genre of art comprising a multi-disciplinary, live, theatrical presentation, usually involving audience. Typically involves non-theatre artist and non-theatre environment

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Script

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The written dialogue an actor/actress uses to bring to life the message contained within it

Question 7

Plot

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In theatre, film, and narrative literature, the structure of the work comprising crises, climax, exposition, complications, and denouement, foreshadowing, discovery, and reversals

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Exposition

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In theatre, film and literature, the aspect of plot in which necessary background informations, introductions of characters, and current situation are detailed

Question 9

Foreshadowing

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In visual art, the illusion depicted on a two-dimensional surface, in which figures and objects appear to recede or project sharply into space, often using the rules of linear perspective. In fictional film, theatre, and literature, the something that will occur later.

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Discovery

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The realization of what was foreshadowed has reached fruition or has been revealed

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Reversal

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The back of a coin- the opposite of what viewer, or reader would have expected to happen

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Character

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Question 13

Chiaroscuro

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In theatre, the use of light tp enhance the three-dimensionality of the human body or the elements of the scenery

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Protagonist

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In theatre, film, and literature, the leading actor or personage in a play or narrative work-that is, the major character around whose decisions and actions the plot revolves

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Themes

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The dominant idea of a work of art, music, film, dance, and literature. In music, art music, film,dance, and literature

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Visual Elements

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A distinguishing scene, piece of scenery or elaborate costume that take a given scene and gives the viewer a vivid picture on which to focus.

Question 17

Scene Design

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Developing the scenery, background, etc. to best fit what the script and the actor/actress requires to deliver the performance to deliver the script