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Extraordinary characters are never portrayed at their worst
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FALSE
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Oedipus is an example of Traditional Tragedy
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TRUE
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Define Story
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the whole thing in chronological order
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Define Plot
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what is actually in the play; scene
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Define Crisis
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series of events resulting from conflicts, obstacles, and complications in the play.
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What is the final crisis in a play
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Climax
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What does Oedipus mean
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A tragic hero
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3 examples of Traditional Tragedy
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Tragic Circumstances
Tragic Irretrievability Acceptance of Responsibility |
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What play is considered a tragedy of the "Common Man"
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Death of a Salesman
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How did Oedipus to get to be King?
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He solved a riddle
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Stock characters exemplify one particular characteristic of the exclusion of virtually everything else
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TRUE
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List 1 Non Human Characteristic in Death of a Salesman
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Ben the Ghost
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What does genre mean
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type/category
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Why is Death of a Salesman a Bourgeois Drama
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It is domestic, about family issues
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What are some examples of melodrama
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High Noon, Star Wars, X Men, James Bond Films
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Do Representative and Quintessential mean the same thing
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TRUE
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Is the Antagonist the main's character's chief supporter
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FALSE
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Is Exposition about what happened before the play begins
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TRUE
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What play structure describes a "Well Made Play"
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Climatic
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A fountain pen, rubber hose, tape recorder, and a pair of stockings are all important in Death of a Salesman
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TRUE
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Example of Heroic Drama
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Cyrano De Bergerac
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Death of a Salesman is both climatic and episodic
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TRUE
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Define Melodrama
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Music drama or Song drama
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List 2 ways Oedipus punishes himself
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Banishes himself, blinds himself
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Shakespeare uses what kind of play structure
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Episodic
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Critics 3 questions
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1) What is being attempted
2) Have the intentions been achieved 3) Was the attempt worthwhile |
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Aesthetic Distance
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Necessary separation between audience and actor
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Realism follows the predictable reality of everyday life
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TRUE
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Who was Konstantin Stanislavski
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A Russian actor/director
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What is the Magic If
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a technique by which an actor can achieve inner truth
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'What phrase did Samuel Taylor Coleridge coin?
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Willing Suspense of Disbelief
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2 examples of non realism
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Allegory
Expressionism |
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2 plays in which actors break the "4th wall"
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Our Town
Rent |
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What does the black card left by Dr. Rank stand for in "A Doll's House"
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death
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4 theatre spaces
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Proscenium,Arena,Thrust,Found
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Rent does not employ Non Realism
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FALSE
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Critic and Reviewer is the same thing
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FALSE
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Our Town employs no props because
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The playwright thought it was not important
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Which crime did Nora commit in Doll's House
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Forgery
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What props are important in Doll's House
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NONE
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Which Roman philosopher created Prescriptive Criticism
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Horace
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Which philosopher created Descriptive Criticism
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Aristotle
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Descriptive Criticism describes how the play ought to be done
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FALSE
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Our Town employs only realism
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FALSE
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A near surreal version of realism which is also called Slice-of-Life is
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Naturalism
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Auteur directors make no change in the play they are working on
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FALSE
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Which stage is not suitable for realistic plays? (picture frame)
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Proscenium
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2 elements of Style
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1) Is it appropriate for the play
2) It should be consistent with every aspect of the production |
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Define Spine
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The action which motivates the play
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Theater of Cruelty
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deep violent and erotic impulses, radical changes
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Poor Theatre
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poor in scenery and and special effects, relies on performers for it's impact
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Happening
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unstructured event that occurred with minimum planning and organization
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Where did the title "A Raisin in the Sun" come from
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the poem Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
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What are some symbols from A Raisin in the Sun
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plant, dress, mother, check
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Who wrote A Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Who wrote Death of a Salesman
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Arthur Miller
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First all black company in NY works of Shakespeare
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African Grove Theater
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First black to play Othello
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James Hewlett
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1st Broadway musicals with all black casts
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A trip to coontown, and In Dahomey
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What is the number record for runnings of Othello
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296
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First black director of a Broadway play
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Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
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Recitative
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a transition section between arias
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Musicals are Episodic
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TRUE except musical reviews
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Revue
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No single story. scenes and songs stand alone with no relation
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Book Musical
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a show that has a story or book, beginning, middle, and end
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"book" of a musical
person who writes "book" |
libretto
librettist |
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Musical that began the Golden Age of the American Musical
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OKLAHOMA
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The Comic Premise
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an idea that turns the accepted notion of things upside down
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What temporarily suspends the natural laws of probability, cause and effect, even logic
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Suspension of Natural Laws
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What is the biggest pun in "The Importance of being Earnest"
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the title
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What is a pun
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humorous use of words
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Malaprop
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a word which sounds like the right word but actually means something different
illegible rather than ineligible |
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Epigram
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verbal humor turning values upside
last thing asked: Are your parents living? |
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Slapstick
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2 wooden slats makes slap sounds
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Farce
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rely on exaggeration, plot complications and broad physical humor
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Burlesque
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to make fun, but now is "Strippers"
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Low Comedy
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relies on ridiculous situations
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High Comedy
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wit and language
The Importance of Being Ernest |
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Satire
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more intellectual form of burlesque
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Domestic Comedy
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family situations, I love Lucy, All in the Family
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Comedy of manners
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points out foibles of the upper class , witty phrases
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Comedy of Ideas
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using comic techniques to debate intellectual propositions to further his own moral and social point of view
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Tragicomedy
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Shakespeare, the OVERVIEW or prevailing attitude of the serious and the comic
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Characteristics of Melodrama
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Audience is drawn into action
Issues are clear cut Characters are recognized as good or bad Action is exaggerated Strong emphasis on suspense |