Intro
This name is where we get the word "thespians" from.
Who is Thespis?
This is where the audience sat.
What is the theatron? (or koilon)
This god is the god of wine, fertility, and theatre.
Who is Dionysus?
This element of drama has to do with the costumes and make-up of the play.
What is spectacle?
This introduces the main characters, support characters, theme, etc. if the narrative.
What is exposition?
______were not allowed to be on the stage.
Who are women?
These are the pathways that the chorus enter and exit from.
What is the parados?
This god turns into animals in order to get with women (not all of the time) and is the god of thunder.
Who is Zeus?
This element has to do with voice projection and sound effects.
What is music/melody?
In order to "rise" to the occasion, we need this first.
What is conflict?
Name the three great tragedy playwrights.
Who are Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus
This is where the chorus leader would start the performance.
What is the thymele?
This god brought fire to man.
Who is Prometheus?
This is the universal message of the plot.
What is theme?
This action can be slow and steady after identifying the main problem of the story.
What is the rising action?
This celebration started around a particular time so that people from all over Greece could go.
What is the Festival of Dionysus?
This area of the stage is called "the dancing place."
She is the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy.
Who is Athena?
This is the written word of the production.
What is Dialogue/Diction
We have reached the mountaintop and we are slowly (or rapidly) descending to the end. This duo helps us to resolve things in the narrative.
What is the climax and the rising action?
The Greeks did the play as a competition for this reason.
What is for glory and to be etched in stone for all to see? (I would also take not for money)
This was the "green room" where actors switched out masks or get dressed in their robes.
Greek mythology was used to help people with this.
What is to learn how things work in the world?
This phenomenon is when you release emotions during a performance and become a better person afterwards.
What is catharsis?
This is the end of the narrative or it could be the foreshadow of something to come.
What is the resolution?