The Chorus of a Greek tragedy performed in this large circular area at the front of the stage.
What is the orchestra?
100
Ancient Greek actors covered their faces with these devices that were generally made from wood and plaster.
What are masks?
100
When Mr. Hale describes how he found the murder scene in Trifles, he provides this part of the plot.
What is exposition?
100
This term refers to the scene built on the stage where the action takes place.
What is the set?
100
Aristotle used this term, often translated as purification, to describe the effect of a tragedy on an audience.
What is catharsis?
200
Audience members for a Greek tragedy would be seated in this area.
What is the theatron?
200
Take it outside! This type of action was never shown on stage in Greek drama.
What is violence?
200
This Latin term describes a plot that opens with the action already underway, such as Trifles.
What is in media res?
200
This term refers to the physical items and materials provided on stage for the actors to use.
What are props?
200
Aristotle wrote that a good tragedy evokes these two emotions in an audience.
What are pity and fear?
300
This area at the back of the stage provided a place for the actors to change costumes and can be literally translated as the "hut."
What is the skene?
300
You'd never see us on stage in a Greek play--we weren't allowed to participate.
Who are women?
300
From the French word for "unraveling," this term describes the action that comes after the climax of the plot.
What is denouement?
300
This Latin term describes the list of characters who will appear in the play.
What is dramatis personae?
300
When an audience knows what will happen to characters before the characters do, it can create this type of effect.
What is dramatic irony?
400
This long narrow section of the theater served as the main acting area during the drama.
What is the proskenion?
400
Often mistranslated as "tragic flaw," this term describes the error that leads to the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.
What is hamartia?
400
When Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters hide the dead canary from the men, Trifles has reached this part of the plot.
What is the climax?
400
A speech given by one character that reveals that character's private thoughts to the audience can be called by this name.
What is a soliloquy?
400
In order to build dramatic irony, Greek playwrights often chose subjects that would be familiar to their audience as this part of their culture.
What are myths?
500
Oh my sister, think--think how our own father died, hated, his reputation in ruins, driven on by the crimes he brought to light himself
Who is Ismene?
500
Absolutely. I'll bet you're a Scorpio.
Who is Betty?
500
I wish you'd seen Minnie Foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and sang.
Who is Mrs. Hale?
500
You can tell Frank Waters everything that I told you. I don't have time for inexperienced people. I'm going out with popular railroad men, men with good salaries, too.
Who is Willie?
500
What's the difference? The main thing is I won an extra day.