Dramatic Structure
The main character
Who is Chekov?
This homosexual play wright wrote The Glass Menegerie.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
What is a confidante?
According to Aristotle, this is the most important element of the drama.
What is plot?
Type of play where scenes are not connected chronologically or causally.
What is episodic?
He wrote plays focused on social issues, like A Doll's House.
Which O'Neil play includes incest and infanticide?
What is Desire Under the Elms?
Character who opposes the main character.
What is the antagonist?
According to Aristotle, this is the least important part of the drama.
What is spectacle?
The moment that begins the action
What is the inciting incident?
He began as a realist and then became a symbolist.
Who was Strindberg?
The quality of language the separates realism from poetic language.
What is heightened or elevated?
The character who shows opposite traits of the main character.
What is a foil?
A play must have a beginning, middle and this.
What is an end?
The moment that finishes the conflict.
What is the climax?
Who is O'Neill?
He wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Streetcar Named Desire.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
Drama is the imatation of this.
What is an action?
The falling action.
What is the denoument?
What is Character?
O'Neil's play that features the biographical relationship between he and his father.
What is Long Days Journey into Night?
The character serving as the voice of the playwright.
What is the raisonneur?
The events of a play must not just be possbible but also this.
What is probable?