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Drama Spring 2015 Review Part 2 (Theatre History and Lit)
Drama Spring 2015 Review Part 2 (Theatre History and Lit)
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Review for part 2 of our Drama 1 final. Focus on Theatre History and Literature
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Thespian
Stock character
Character
Hamartia
Actor
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Grow in intensity
Dramatic irony
Pacing
Build
Climax
3
Not under copyright
Deus ex Machina
Convention
Public domain
Chorus
4
Way by which an author can register ownership of literary or musical property
Copyright
Convention
Iambic pentameter
Public domain
5
Group or category of compositions that have common (shared) characteristics
Subtext
Theme
Stock character
Genre
6
Play that explores human suffering
Tragedy
Hamartia
Theme
Genre
7
Rate of performance
Build
Climax
Pacing
Iambic pentameter
8
Departure from reality that the audience will accept
Convention
Subtext
Dramatic irony
Comedy
9
Device from Ancient Greek theatre in which a god would appear at the end and resolve conflicts
Convention
Denouement
Hamartia
Deus ex machina
10
Thoughts that accompany a line. Implied but not spoken.
Theme
Convention
Public domain
Subtext
11
Actor
Character
Thespis
Dionysis
Thespian
12
Tragic flaw
Tragedy
Denouement
Hamartia
Deus ex machina
13
Final scene of a play where the plot is unraveled and brought to a tidy conclusion
Climax
Theme
Hamartia
Denouement
14
Character whose main trait is ordinariness
Tragedy
Character
Stock character
Straight man
15
Spectators/readers of inferior taste, like audience members who stood in a pit below the stage
Groundlings
Public domain
Stock characters
Convention
16
Clownish or strange
Comedy
Straight man
Character
Genre
17
When the audience knows something the character doesn't know
Subtext
Tragedy
Dramatic irony
Public domain
18
Play that explores human foibles. Usually has happy ending.
Deus ex machina
Tragedy
Character
Comedy
19
Familiar characters who appear in a variety of plays. Ex: Hero, clever servant, fool, etc.
Groundlings
Character (adj).
Straight man
Stock characters
20
Homogeneous, non-individualized group of performers in plays of Ancient Greece.
Stock characters
Groundlings
Chorus
Deus ex Machina
21
Shakespeare's most commonly used verse
Hamartia
Iambic pentameter
Deus Ex Machina
Denouement
22
God worshipped in the original Greek playwriting festivals
Thespis
Thespian
Dionysus
Hamartia
23
Most intense moment of the plot or scene
Theme
Climax
Denouement
Build
24
The point, message, or topic of a performance piece
Climax
Theme
Genre
Subtext
25
The first actor, according to legend
Hamartia
Thespis
Thespian
Dionysis
