Dramatic Structure
Realistic Playwrights
Poetic Realism
Types of Characters
Aristotle
100

The main character

Who is the protagonist?


100
He wrote Uncle Vanya.

Who is Chekov?

100

This homosexual play wright wrote The Glass Menegerie.

Who is Tennessee Williams?

100
Character with whom secrets are shared.

What is a confidante?

100

According to Aristotle, this is the most important element of the drama.

What is plot?

200

Type of play where scenes are not connected chronologically or causally.

What is episodic?

200

He wrote plays focused on social issues, like A Doll's House.

Who is Ibsen?
200

Which O'Neil play includes incest and infanticide?

What is Desire Under the Elms?

200

Character who opposes the main character.

What is the antagonist?

200

According to Aristotle, this is the least important part of the drama.

What is spectacle?

300

The moment that begins the action

What is the inciting incident?

300

He began as a realist and then became a symbolist.

Who was Strindberg?

300

The quality of language the separates realism from poetic language.

What is heightened or elevated?

300

The character who shows opposite traits of the main character.

What is a foil?

300

A play must have a beginning, middle and this.

What is an end?

400

The moment that finishes the conflict.

What is the climax?

400
He was awarded 4 Pulitzer Prizes for drama.

Who is O'Neill?

400

He wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Streetcar Named Desire.

Who is Tennessee Williams?

400
The "straight man" or the character that stands in opposition to the zany characters.
What is a normative character?
400

Drama is the imatation of this.

What is an action?

500

The falling action.

What is the denoument?

500
Aristotle would say that this element is them most important for the realistic playwrights.

What is Character?

500

O'Neil's play that features the biographical relationship between he and his father.

What is Long Days Journey into Night?

500

The character serving as the voice of the playwright.

What is the raisonneur?

500

The events of a play must not just be possbible but also this.

What is probable?