Tier Three Vocabulary — Streetcar Methods Flashcards
1
Q
What is proleptic imagery?
A
imagery beforehand
2
Q
Peripeteia
A
reversal of fortune in a tragic hero
3
Q
What is Plastic Theatre?
A
“all the elements of staging must combine to reflect and enhance action, theme, character and language”
4
Q
Realism
A
genre of theatre which encourages believable reproductions of life on stage
5
Q
Expressionalism
A
a genre which sought to express emotional experiences in a symbolic, distorted, stylised fashion
- costumes, set, props, lighting, music
6
Q
What is lycanthropy?
A
the mythological ability or power of a human being able to undergo transformation into an animal like state e.g. a werewolf
