LITERARY
The series of events that take place in a play
What is the plot?
This term refers to the stage and environment created for a performance.
What is the set?
What is the use of face, body, and voice to portray a character?
What is acting?
This term describes the emotional response an audience has to a performance.
What is mood?
The event that "gets the story going."
What is the initial incident?
The turning point or high point of a story in drama.
What is the climax?
These are movable objects on stage.
What are props?
What is the term for changes in pitch and loudness to emphasize certain words?
What are dynamics?
The overall feeling created by physical and sensory elements.
What is atmosphere?
Initial incident, preliminary event, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement.
What are the six stages of plot structure?
The term for the series of events following the climax.
What is the falling action?
This stage element is concerned with placement, intensity, and color.
What are lighting elements?
What is the rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language?
What is cadence?
This term refers to the emotional response, while atmosphere is the setting and environment.
What is mood?
The term for the resolution or ending of a drama.
What is the denouement?
The events that happen before the action of the play.
What are preliminary events?
These elements include curtains, flats, and backdrops.
What is the set?
Character blocking determines the movement of actors on stage, which conveys relationships and emotions.
What is the significance of character blocking in a script?
The process of examining how drama elements are constructed to convey interpretation.
What is dramatic analysis?
These plot stages establish context and background for the audience.
What is the importance of initial incidents and preliminary events in drama?
The playwright establishes these connections through carefully constructed dialogue and action that reveals background information.
What is how the playwright crafts the relationship between actions onstage and prior events?
What role do sound effects play in a dramatic performance?
Sound effects help to communicate context and enhance the audience's understanding of the environment.
These performance elements include visual and auditory aspects that convey meaning beyond spoken dialogue.
What are nonverbal performance elements?
This influences how the audience emotionally connects to the characters and events on stage.
What is the impact of mood on audience perception?
This is shaped by the combination of lighting and music that conveys specific emotional tones to the audience.
What is how mood is established?