A tragedy ends this way and a comedy ends this way.
What is tragedy: badly OR in sorrow and regret AND comedy: happily?
100
The lines in italics, where characters do not speak, are called these.
What are stage directions?
100
This is where the actors do their thing....
What is a stage?
100
The most exciting part of a play is called this.
What is the climax?
100
Conflicts are struggles, but these are smaller problems that may hinder a character from achieving a goal.
What are complications?
200
Sets, lights, costumes, and props all fall under this category.
What is scene design?
200
When multiple people speak, it's called this.
What is dialogue?
200
Imagine you are an actor. You are facing the audience. You go "stage left," which means you go to this direction.
What is to the left?
200
The good guys is called this and the bad guy is called this.
What is good: protagonist, bad: antagonist?
200
This is the definition of "predominant" (The predominant response to comedy is laughter and amusement.)
What is "more powerful" or "more common?"
300
A tragic hero like Caesar is a hero because he is admirable and tragic because he has one of these.
What is a tragic flaw?
300
When 1 person speaks and there are other characters present, it's called this.
What is monologue?
300
Imagine you are an actor. You are facing the audience. You go "downstage," which means you move in this direction.
What is forward (toward the audience).
300
These are the 2 types of conflict (think man vs. man and man vs. self).
What are external (like man vs. man) and internal (man vs. self)?
300
This is the definition of "highlight." (The antagonist sometimes serves to highlight the qualities of the protagonist.)
What is "to point out" or "to make stand out."
400
The people who create and decorate sets, move equipment, open and close curtains, run lighting and sound, and do behind the scenes tasks for a production are called these.
What are stagehands?
400
When 1 person speaks and there are no other characters present, it is called this.
What is a soliloquy?
400
Imagine you are an actor. You are facing the audience. You go "upstage," which means you move in this direction.
What is backward (away from the audience)?
400
If 2 characters have opposite characteristics that can be contrasted, they are called this.
What are foil characters?
400
This is the definition of "principal" (not of a school). (Conflict is always a principal element in drama.)
What is "most important?"
500
The earliest plays were performed here to honor the god of wine and fertility. (p. 674)
Where is Greece?
500
When 1 person speaks and he/she is commenting on what is happening in the play and the other characters might be there but cannot hear him/her, it is called this.
What is an aside?
500
One type of comedy in which stereotypical (flat) characters are involved in ridiculous activities is called this. (p. 703)
What is a farce?
500
When the audience knows something that the actors do not know (like how we know that Cassius wants to kill Caesar and Caesar doesn't know), it is called this. (p. 675)
What is dramatic irony?
500
This is the definition of "criteria." (Reviewers have many criteria about what makes a good play.)