Unique to Hamlet, RAGAD, The Birthday Party, & Faustus
Types of Drama
100
Catharsis
What is the audience's process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions?
100
Monologue
What is the term describing a long speech by a single character?
100
Props
What are objects actors use?
100
Dead
If Hamlet fits Aristotle's classification that the tragic hero be in a position from which to fall, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are...
100
Tragedy
Drama wherein the main characters are dead or destroyed.
200
Chorus
Who in Greek drama, would begin the play by setting up the story possibly (like in Doctor Faustus) offer other third person narration throughout?
200
Soliloquy
What is the term describing a long speech by a single character expressing his or her innermost thoughts?
200
Gestures
What are motions actors makes?
200
Character doubles or foil characters.
The clowns are these to Faustus; Laertes and Fortinbras are these to Hamlet.
200
Comedy
Drama wherein the main characters are happy and healthy at the conclusion.
300
Hamartia
What is Greek term for the protagonist's tragic flaw?
300
Aside
What is the term that describes a characters' whispered comment that the other individuals on stage pretend not to hear?
300
Comic relief
The gravediggers, the Pope, the cornflakes, and the game of rhetoric serves this purpose in these tragedies....
300
Tragicomedy
Mix of comedic and tragic elements creates this
400
Peripeteia
What is the Greek term for the protagonist's reversal of fortune, the ironic moment in the drama where the character's tragic flaw leads to his or her potential demise?
400
Fourth Wall
What is the character "breaking" if he or she speaks directly to the audience?
400
Set
What is the artificial setting for a scene in a play, including furniture, scenery, and other items to create an illusion of another time and place?
400
Suicide
What most believe Hamlet means by 'ending' the 'slings and arrows?'
400
Theater of the Absurd
Drama that lacks a horizon of significance and comments on the post-modern world.
500
Fear and pity
According to Aristotle, what two emotions must the audience feel for the tragic hero?
500
Stichomythia
What is rapid-fire dialogue between two characters on stage?
500
Mimesis
The inclusion of physical elements differentiates a drama from prose and allows the art to better mimic life, an element known as this.
500
Non sequitur
The interrogation scene in the Birthday Party consists mainly of this type of statement...
500
Comedy of Manace
Drama that is on the surface comedic but disturbingly tragic when looked at more closely; Pinter's plays are the prime examples.