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You can earn extra credit in this class by attending additional plays and writing a report on them.
correct answers True
Online classes are easier than face-to-face classes. correct answers False
Theatre is an art because it: correct answers Structures meaning without providing dogma
Which mode of performance acknowledges the audience—as in the case of the nightclub
performer who sings, dances, jokes, and responds overtly to applause? correct answers The
presentational mode
How does a theatrical performance differ from a video or a filmed performance? correct answers
The theatrical performance is live, with the audience and performers, who are aware of each
other and mutually interact in their shared presence
While both theatre and sport are public spectacles, theatre differs from sports activities because:
correct answers Theatre has a pre-ordained ending
Class requirements include seeing how many live plays? correct answers Two
"Play" and "performance" are interchangeable terms correct answers False
Theatre signifies all the following EXCEPT: correct answers The stage and backstage spaces
Which of the following is true of the relationship between the play script and the performance?
correct answers The script is a silhouette or outline of the play itself, which fully exists in
performance only.
The English word for person comes from the Latin word for: correct answers Mask
Live performance is a term that encompasses theatre, film, television and new media. correct
answers False
Performance is a strictly theatrical phenomenon correct answers False
In classical times, what physical and symbolic element separated the actors from the audience?
correct answers The actors wore masks.
What is our class using as the formal definition of "theatre?": correct answers That body of
artistic work in which actors portray characters in a live performance of a scripted play
Theatre comes from theatron, which means: correct answers Seeing place
,What is plagiarism? correct answers when a student misrepresents the work of another as his or
her own
Our outcomes and objectives for this class come from San Francisco State's learning outcomes
for GE, and from the National Association of Schools of Theater's standards correct answers
True
The distinctive feature of theatre, which separates it from other arts, is that theatre employs:
correct answers Impersonation
Drama comes from the Greek dran, which means correct answers To do
The major organization for theatre companies in San Francisco is called: correct answers Theatre
Bay Area
Which one of the following is part of the time-based horizontal axis of dramaturgy? correct
answers pre-play
The six components of a play which Aristotle lists, in order of importance, are: correct answers
plot, character, theme, diction, music, and spectacle
Which of the following is true about the differences between tragedy and comedy? correct
answers Tragedy typically deals with great people, whereas comedy deals with ordinary people.
According to Aristotle, it is impossible to break down the elements that make tragedy effective.
correct answers False
Processions and the Ancient Greek proagon are two examples of ways in which theatre artists
publicized their plays in ages past. correct answers True
The final scene, action, or lines in a play devoted to bringing the play to a new level of harmony
or understanding, perhaps even resolution, after the climax is called the correct answers
denouement
The Greek term for the "carrier of the action" in a tragedy is: correct answers Protagonist
The agreement between the audience and the actor, which includes a whole set of tacit
understandings that form the context of playwatching, is called: correct answers Convention
Which element describes the play's use of rhythm and sounds, either by way of instrumental
composition or the orchestration of such noises as muffled drumbeats, gunshots, special effects,
and vocal tones? correct answers Music
In Greek tragedy, the central character correct answers undergoes a change that leads to his or
her demise.
, In Western drama, a full-length play has historically been designated as one that: correct answers
lasts two to three hours, typically.
Aristotle's term for the play's abstracted intellectual content is "thesis." correct answers False
Genre means category or kind. correct answers True
In play construction, the single action that initiates the major conflict of the play is called the
correct answers Inciting incident
Background information, presented within the play that the audience must possess in order to
understand the action of the play is called: correct answers exposition
In a Greek play, the lead character that moves the action forward is opposed by a figure called
the antagonist. correct answers True
What is the difference between plot and story? correct answers Plot refers to the structure of
events; story refers to a narrative of what happens in a play
The audience is NOT a part of the definition of conventions of the theatre. correct answers False
A play that dramatizes the key events in the life of a king or head of state, such as Shakespeare's
Henry IV, is called: correct answers A history play
The visual aspect of the play, including the scenery, costumes, lighting, make-up, and the over-
all look of the stage are included in the element known as correct answers Spectacle
The purging or cleansing of the audience's pity and terror at the climax of a tragedy is called:
correct answers catharsis
Comedies that use a more bleak humor in dealing with serious themes are known as correct
answers dark comedies
Which element of drama refers not only to the pronunciation of spoken dialogue but also to the
literary nature of the play's text, including its tone, imagery, articulation, and use of such literary
forms as verse, rhyme, metaphor, jest, apostrophe, and epigram? correct answers diction
Directed stage actions that are precisely scripted physical behaviors worked out in blocking are
called correct answers stage business
Actors who studies human behaviors from a broad range of historical periods, countries, and
social classes, so as to apply them when creating characters from a variety of dramatic styles,
demonstrates a technique of the _________ mode of acting. correct answers Presentational
The term "subtext" refers to correct answers a character's unspoken and undescribed goals.
