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Fine arts test
Question | Answer |
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play structure | One act, full length, montage |
sound effects | added emphasis |
music | mood, setting, scores |
voice | emotion, thoughts, accents |
rapid exchange | quick lines like in a comedy routine |
soliloquy | a person thinking out loud |
aside | when actor breaks character to talk to audience |
function of drama | to entertain, to teach |
protagonist | often undergoes a struggle that ends disastrously |
tragedy | playwright makes a statement about human frailty and failing |
judicious | having, applying or showing sound, judgment' wise and careful |
farce | broad humor of the kind found in such plays; an action, situation etc. that is ridiculous or unbelievable |
satire | use of irony, sarcasm, and humor to criticize or make fun or foolish or immoral actions, customs, people. |
monologue | one person talking for an extended period |
travesties | an inferior imitation or likeness |
parodies | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated to comic effect |
pantomime | dramatic or dancing performance in which a story is told by expressive movements |
pulchritude | to separate forcibly from a natural firm attachment |
minstrel show | one of a troupe of performers typically giving a program of Negro melodies and jokes and usually blacked imitation of negroes |
indigenous | produced, growing, or living naturally in a particular region or environment |
subservient | useful in promoting a purpose or end. |
travesties | a literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject, characterized by grotesque or ludicrous incongruity of style, treatment, or subject matter. |
early american musicals | ornate production numbers chorus girls song with provocative, sexual innuendoes large dance numbers elaborate costuming |