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WGU-LCC1: Drama His
Drama and History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Moral | A paraphrasable message or lesson implied or directly stated in literary work |
| Scene | Division of the action in an act of play; represents a single dramatic action that builds to climax |
| Comedy | Literary work aimed at pleasing an audience; produces a happy ending |
| Burlesque | Broadly humorous parody or travesty of another play or kind of play; |
| Comedy of Manners | Form of high comedy about love that relies on intellectual rather than physical comedy & is meant to appeal to a "cultivated" audience; setting is frequently aristocratic or high society |
| Commedia | Comic drama developed by guilds of professional Italian actors in mid 16th century; masked players playing stock characters improvised dialogue around a given scenario |
| Farce | Form of low comedy that relies upon exaggerated character, physical action & unpredictable or improbable plot situations; aims at entertaining, with elements of panic, surprise, & cruelty |
| High Comedy | Comic genre evoking so-called intellectual or thoughtful laughter from an audience that remains emotionally detached from the plays depiction of the folly, pretense, & incongruity of human behavior |
| Low Comedy | Comic style arousing laughter through jokes, slapstick humor, sight gags, & boisterous clowning (little intellectual appeal) |
| Romantic Comedy | Form of comic drama in which the plot focuses on one or more pains of young lovers who overcome difficulties to achieve a happy ending |
| Slapstick | Kind of farce, featuring pratfalls, pie throwing, fisticuffs, & other violent action |
| Tragedy | Representation of serious & important actions that lead to a disastrous end for the protagonist; unhappy ending |
| Tragicomedy | Combines elements of both comedy & tragedy; situations that bring protagonist to brink of disaster but that ends happily |
| Melodrama | Weak in characterization & motivation but famously strong on action, suspense, & passion |
| Suspense | Enjoyable anxiety created by authors handling of plot; results from audience anticipation for characters |
| Character | magined figure inhabiting a narrative or drama |
| Orchestra | Circular, level performance space at base of a horseshoe shaped amphitheater (Classical) |
| Amphitheater | Greek stage performance space for plays (Classical) |
| Skene | Greek staging, temporary wooden stage building in which actors changed when changing roles; served as setting for action in an interior space (Classical) |
| Picture-frame Stage | Held Action in proscenium arch, framed by painted scene panels designed to give 3-D illusion (Medieval) |
| Proscenium Arch | Separating auditorium from the raised stage frame or gateway in "front of scenery" (Medieval) |
| Troubadours | Lyric poets who sang to aristocratic audiences mostly of chivalry & love (Medieval) |
| Madrigal | Short secular song for 3 or more voices arranged in counterpoint; love or pastoral themes (Renaissance) |
| Augustan Age | Greatest period of Roman literature under Emperor Augustus, dominated by Virgil, Horace, & Ovid; & neoclassical period dominated by Pope, Gray, & Swift |
| Oral Tradition | Transmits narratives by word of mouth from one generation to another |
| Pantomime | Acting on stage without speech (mime) |
| Peripeteia | (Sudden change) reversal of fortune & or intent; occurs when certain result is expected & instead it's opposite is produced |
| Dumb Show | Renaissance theater, mimed dramatic performance whose purpose is to prepare the audience for main action of the play to follow |
| Gothic Novel | Terror & suspense, usually set in an isolated castle, mansion, or monastery populated by mysterious or threatening individuals |
| Magic Realism | Contemporary narrative in which the magical & the mundane are mixed in an overall context of realistic story telling |
| Baroque Literature | Great emphasis on originality & an overabundance of stylistic devices, particularly metaphors, hyperboles, & antitheses |
| Classical Unities | Unity of action, place, and time; based on rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics |
| Theatre of the Absurd | Plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless (Modern) |
| Arena Theatre | Theatre without a proscenium; the stage is at the center of the auditorium & is surrounded by seats also called, theatre in the round (Modern) |
| Thrust Theatre | Theatre that extends into the audience, beyond the usual location of the proscenium & often has seats facing it on 3 sides (Renaissance) |
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