AH 13 Drama Terms
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show | Globe (Theater)
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show | Round
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show | Playwright
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show | Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles
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5. To wish an actor good luck, what are you supposed to say | show 🗑
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show | Matinee
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show | Tragedy
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8. Name the movable stage upon which a medieval mystery play was presented. Today, it a name for an outdoor performance | show 🗑
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9. What two-word phrase refers to an occurrence in which virtue is rewarded, or evil is punished, in an unusual or unexpected way, such as in 'Oliver Twist' when the villainous Sikes accidentally hangs himself when trying to escape | show 🗑
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show | Antagonist
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show | Protagonist
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show | Conflict
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show | Flashback
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14. What are clues called that hint at what will happen later in the story or play | show 🗑
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15. What term beginning with “I” refers to an instance when the opposite of what is expected occurs | show 🗑
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show | Mood or Atmosphere
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17. A work's main idea is referred to by what term | show 🗑
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show | Tone
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show | Suspense
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show | Theater of the Absurd
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show | Catharsis
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show | Thespis
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show | Everyman
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24. Identify the Greek term that denotes excessive pride leading to the downfall of the hero in a tragic drama | show 🗑
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show | Proscenium
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show | Theatron
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show | Aside
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the quality of a room in respect to transmission of sound | show 🗑
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a major unit or division of a play | show 🗑
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show | acting
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show | action
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show | actor
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show | ad-lib
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a dramatic work in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between the literal meaning and the underlying, or allegorical, meaning of the work | show 🗑
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show | amphitheater
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the opponent or adversary of the hero or main character of a drama; one who opposes and actively competes with another character in a play, most often with the protagonist | show 🗑
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show | antihero
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show | apron
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show | Aristophanes
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dialogue spoken by an actor while other actors are on stage but which is understood to be heard only by the audience | show 🗑
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the people who watch the performance; those for whom the performance is intended | show 🗑
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a tryout for a part in a drama; also, the act of trying out | show 🗑
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show | auditorium
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a flat surface the width of the stage, hung upstage of the acting area, upon which scenery is usually painted | show 🗑
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flats or drops behind scenery openings, such as doors and windows of the set, to mask the backstage area | show 🗑
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the area behind or beyond the stage that includes dressing rooms and wings | show 🗑
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show | Bard
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show | batten
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show | black box
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show | blackout
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show | blocking
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an enclosed area, usually found in or adjoining the lobby of a theater, where tickets are sold; how well or poorly a production performs “at the box office” indicates a monetary measure of the success of ticket sales | show 🗑
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show | box set
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traditional Japanese puppet theater | show 🗑
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a form of low comedy that mocks a broad topic | show 🗑
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show | cabaret
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show | callback
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the group of people selected to portray characters in a drama | show 🗑
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coined by Aristotle to reflect the purging and cleansing of emotions from watching a tragedy | show 🗑
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show | catwalk
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the area in the center or middle of the stage | show 🗑
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the movement of actors and dancers to music in a play | show 🗑
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show | chorus
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the point of greatest intensity in a series or progression of events in a play, often forming the turning point of the plot and leading to some kind of resolution | show 🗑
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show | cold reading
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show | comedy
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a break in the tension of a tragedy provided by a comic character, a comic episode, or even a comic line | show 🗑
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show | commedia dell’ arte
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show | community theater
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everyone associated with a production | show 🗑
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show | conflict
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the words or action at which an actor is expected to deliver a line or perform another action cue | show 🗑
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the appearance of the cast at the end of a play to receive applause from the audience | show 🗑
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show | cut
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show | cyclorama
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show | dénouement
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literally, “god from the machine”; refers to the character in classical Greek tragedy who entered the play from the heavens at the end of the drama to resolve or explain the conflict; in modern drama, refers to any arbitrary means of plot resolution | show 🗑
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show | dialogue
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Greek god to whom most of the Greek plays were produced | show 🗑
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show | director
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the area of the stage closest to the audience | show 🗑
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the art of composing, writing, acting, or producing plays; a literary composition intended to portray life or character or enact a story, usually involving conflicts and emotions exhibited through action and dialogue, designed for theatrical performance | show 🗑
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person who assists the director by researching the context of a play, including the historical periods and biographical information about the playwright; person who assists the playwright with clarifying and revising the script in progress | show 🗑
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a rehearsal, usually the last one before performances begin, in which all lighting, costumes, makeup, set changes, props, sound effects, and special effects are used | show 🗑
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show | drop
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show | elements of drama
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the capacity to relate to the feelings of another | show 🗑
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show | ensemble
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show | entrance
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a summary speech delivered at the end of a play that explains or comments on the action | show 🗑
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show | exit
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the part of a play that introduces the theme, chief characters, and current circumstances | show 🗑
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show | extemporaneous
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show | falling action
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an extreme form of comedy that depends on quick tempo and flawless timing and is characterized by improbable events and farfetched coincidences; from the French meaning “to stuff | show 🗑
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in a nonlinear plot, to go back in time to a previous event; a flashforward would move the action into the future | show 🗑
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a wooden frame, usually covered with painted cloth, used to create walls or separations on stage | show 🗑
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A floodlight: a lantern which gives a wide-spreading, unfocused beam of light | show 🗑
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one who by strong contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another and, sometimes, prevents someone or something from being successful | show 🗑
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show | folktale
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show | foreshadowing
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the invisible wall of a set through which the audience sees the action of the play | show 🗑
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show | Freytag's Pyramid
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show | Gauze
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a category of literary or dramatic composition | show 🗑
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any movement of the actor’s head, shoulder, arm, hand, leg, or foot to convey meaning | show 🗑
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show | Ghost Light
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show | greasepaint
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a waiting area offstage to be used by actors | show 🗑
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show | grid
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show | house lights
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show | harlequin
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show | Hubris
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the spontaneous use of movement and speech to create a character or object in a particular situation; acting done without a script | show 🗑
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a brief break between acts, in which the house lights come on and the audience may leave their seats | show 🗑
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an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant | show 🗑
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show | Kabuki
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show | leitmotiv
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the dialogue of a play; the words actors say in performance | show 🗑
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a style of play, which originated in the 19th century, relying heavily on sensationalism and sentimentality They tend to feature action more than motivation, stock characters, and a strict view of morality in which good triumphs over evil | show 🗑
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show | mime
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the practice of mimicking or imitating | show 🗑
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copying the movement and/or expression or look of someone else exactly | show 🗑
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a long speech made by one actor they may be delivered alone or in the presence of others | show 🗑
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the tone or feeling of the play, often engendered by the music, setting, or lighting | show 🗑
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an allegorical drama, such as Everyman, in which vices and virtues are personified in the battle for the protagonist’s soul The genre developed in Medieval England | show 🗑
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show | mummer’s play
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show | musical
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show | Noh
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show | Obstacle
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show | Orchestra
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acting without words | show 🗑
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a mocking or satirical imitation of a literary or dramatic work | show 🗑
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a presentation of a drama | show 🗑
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show | playwright
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show | plot
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show | Poetic Justice
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the person who puts together a theatrical production, obtaining the financing, hiring the director and other stage personnel, supervising the budget, leasing rights and space, etc | show 🗑
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show | production
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how well the voice carries to the audience | show 🗑
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show | prologue
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show | prompt
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show | props
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show | proscenium
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the main character or hero in a play or other literary work | show 🗑
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a practice session in which the director works with cast and crew | show 🗑
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how the problem or conflict in a drama is solved or concluded | show 🗑
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a critic’s analysis of a performance | show 🗑
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show | rhetorical devices
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a series of events following the initial incident and leading up to the dramatic climax | show 🗑
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the character portrayed by an actor in a drama | show 🗑
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show | royalties
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show | satire
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show | scene
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show | scenery
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a drop made of fabric that seems almost opaque when lit from the front but semitransparent when lit from behind | show 🗑
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the written dialogue, description, and directions provided by the playwright | show 🗑
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the physical surroundings, visible to the audience, in which the action of the play takes place | show 🗑
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when and where the action of a play takes place | show 🗑
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show | Skene
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show | soliloquy
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visual or sound effects used to enhance a theatrical performance | show 🗑
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the scenery, costumes, and special, or visual, effects in a production | show 🗑
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A type of lantern whose beam is focused through a lens or series of lenses to make it more controllable | show 🗑
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show | stage left
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show | stage manager
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show | stage presence
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when facing the audience, the area of the stage on the actor’s right (the audience’s left) | show 🗑
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show | stock characters
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show | strike
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a feeling of uncertainty as to the outcome, used to build interest and excitement on the part of the audience | show 🗑
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an object or event used in literature to represent something else; often this representation alludes to a deeper meaning | show 🗑
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show | tableau
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a horizontal drape at the top of the proscenium arch | show 🗑
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the pace of a scene or a play | show 🗑
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the atmosphere created by unresolved, disquieting, or inharmonious situations that human beings feel compelled to address; the state of anxiety the audience feels because of a threat to a character in a play | show 🗑
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an acting area or stage that may be viewed from all sides simultaneously | show 🗑
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literally, "viewing-place” – part of the Greek theater where the audience sat | show 🗑
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show | theme
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the Greek recognized as the first actor | show 🗑
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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides | show 🗑
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show | thrust
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show | timing
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show | tormentors
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from the Greek meaning ‘goat song’; A type of drama that recounts the events of an individual’s life that results in an unhappy catastrophe | show 🗑
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show | tragic flaw
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show | tragic hero
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an opening in the stage floor | show 🗑
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the climax or high point of a story, when events can go either way | show 🗑
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(noun) the area on stage farthest from the audience, toward the backstage wall | show 🗑
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show | vaudeville
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show | wings
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The element of drama deals with the individuals in a drama | show 🗑
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show | Plot
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show | Symbols
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show | Theme
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The element of drama that involves the use of words to mean something very different from what they appear on the surface to mean | show 🗑
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perspective from which a story is told | show 🗑
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show | Third Person Omniscient
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show | Third Person Limited
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show | First Person
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the point of view in which the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue | show 🗑
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The sequence of events or incidents of which the story is composed | show 🗑
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show | Exposition
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the part of the plot that build toward the climax | show 🗑
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show | Climax
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the part of the plot that leads to the end | show 🗑
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show | Denouement
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How many elements of drama does Aristotle have? | show 🗑
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show | Plot
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show | Theme
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show | Character
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show | Diction/Language/Dialouge
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show | Music/Rhythum
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The visual elements of the production of a play; the scenery,costumes,and special effects in a production. | show 🗑
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show | Proscenium
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show | Thrust Stages
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The audience is located on all four sides of the stage | show 🗑
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