Ch. 1: Theatrical Experience
Ch. 2: Plot
Ch. 3: Character
Ch. 5: Serious Drama
Ch. 6: Comedy
100
A casual comment by a character to the audience, unheard by others, is called:
What is an aside?
100
The highest point of tension in the play:
What is climax?
100
Aristotle includes what other element in his discussion of character:
What is thought?
100
A play about a dissatisfied woman who manipulates others for her pleasure:
What is Hedda Gabbler?
100
Type of comedy which holds the customs of aristocratic society up to ridicule:
What is Comedy of Manners?
200
The invisible line that separates the actors and audience in a realistic play is called:
What is the fourth wall?
200
The correspondence of story time to performance time:
What is duration?
200
A contrasting character who highlights features of the main character, such as Laertes to Hamlet:
What is a foil?
200
August Wilson's drama about a family argument over what object:
What is a piano?
200
The comic character who pretends to be less than he actually is, Aristotle calls the:
What is the ironist?
300
This chapter describes theater as a ____ of all the various arts. 
What is a synthesis?
300
Shuffling the sequence of events in the story:
What is order?
300
Stock characters and improvisation are two characteristics of: 
What is Commedia Dell'arte?


300
A modern take on Hamlet:
What is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?
300
The comic technique which makes fun of human weakness such as stupidity and hypocrisy is:
What is derision?
400
Both Greek and Shakespearean theater shared this convention:
What is men playing all roles within a show?
400
Defines the limits of what is or can be known at a particular time in the play:
What is knowledge mode?
400
Renaissance theory about bodily fluids that affect character:
What are humours?
400
Often called the father of modern drama:
Who is Ibsen?
400
Festive comedies consist mainly of:
What is celebration/
500
The author of the first work of dramatic criticism, The Poetics:
Who is Aristotle?
500
Concerns matters of permission,prohibition, and obligation.
What is imperative mode?
500
In Renaissance drama, an anti-hero dissatisfied with his lot in life.
What is malcontent?
500
"Master Harold" and the Boys is set in what country?
What is South Africa?
500
Italian comedy relying on improvisation:
What is the Commedia Dell'arte?
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