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Literature LCC WGU14
Literature-Notes Chapter 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Catharsis is defined as which of the following? | A release of the emotions of pity and fear |
| Suspension of disbelief is defined as which of the following? | The audience’s willingness to react to events on stage as if they were real |
| A character whose primary function in a play is to present a contrast to the protagonist is: | A foil |
| Which of the following are the two main methods of characterization in drama? | Dialogue and action |
| Which is the correct order for the parts of a plot? | Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, dénouement |
| Antagonist | The character directy opposed to the protagonist. a rival, opponent, or enemy of the protagonist |
| Antihero | a protagonist of a modern play or novel who has the converse of most of the traditional attributes of the hero |
| Aside | a dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage |
| Act | a major division of a drama. the major parts of ancient Greek plays distinguised by the appearance of the chorus, generally fell, as Aristotle implies into five parts |
| Blocking | |
| Characterization | the creation of imaginary persons so that they seem lifelike |
| Climax | a rhetorical term for a rising order of importance in the ideas expressed |
| Conflict | the struggle that grows out of the interplay of two opposing forces. it provides interest, suspense, and tension |
| Catharsis | as being "through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions' but he does not explain what "proper purgation" means. In his time it had both a medical and a religious signification. |
| Deus ex Machina | the employmentof some unexpected and improbable incident to make things turn out right |
| Denounement | Literally, "unknotting." the final unraveling of a plot |
| Exposition | one of the four chief types of composition, the others being argumentation, description, and narration. |
| Foil | literally, a "leaf" of bright metal placed under a jewel to increase its brilliance |
| Hero | the central character in a work. the character who is the focus of interest. |
| Itamartia | |
| Motivation | the reasons, justifications, and explanations for the action of a character. it results from combination of the character's moral nature with the circumstances in which the charater is placed |
| Monolgue | a composition giving the discourse of one speaker |
| Foreshadowing | the presentation of material in a work in such a way that later events are prepared for it can result from the establishment of a mood or atmosphere |
| Falling Action | the second half or resolution of a dramatic plot. it follows the climax, beginning often with a tragic force, exhibits the failing fortunes of the hero and the successful efforts of the counterplayers, and culminates in the catastrophe. |
| Protagonist | the chief character in work. the word was origianlly applied to the "first" actor in early Greek drama. |
| Pantomime | in its broad sense the term means silent action; the form of drmatic activity in which silent motion, gesture, expression, and costume express emotional states or narrative situations |
| Rising Action | a foot in which the last syllable is accented; thusiamb and the anapest, in English the |
| Reversal | the change in fortune for a protagonist |
| Stock Character | conventional character types |
| Soliloquy | a speech delivered while the speaker is alone, calculated to inform the audience of what is passing in the character's mind |
| Suspense | anticipation as to the outcome of events, particularly as they affect a character for whom one has sympathy; it is a major device for securing and maintaining interest. |
| Scene | the division of an act into scenes is somewhat less systematic than the division of the play itself into acts, for there is incomplete agreement about what constitutes a scene |
| Suspension of disbelief | the willingness to withhold questions about truth, accuracy, or probablility in a work |
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