Show:
Glamorous Glossary
Big Ideas
Key Terms
Genres of Drama
Remember this!
100
The general locale and historical time in which an action occurs
What is overall setting?
100
This is when a play self-consciously alludes to itself
What is metatheater?
100
This is Aristotle’s term for a change of one state of affairs to its opposite
What is reversal?
100
This play is an example of experimental theater, but is not part of Theater of the Absurd
What is Traps?
100
The gravedigger scene in Hamlet is meant to provide this
What is comic relief?
200
Situation in a narrative where the audience or reader has knowledge of which a character is ignorant
What is dramatic irony?
200
Aristotle argued that this could only happen to a person of the "higher type"
What is a tragedy?
200
This school of thought believes that human beings are essentially rational
What is humanism?
200
Aristotle pointed to this play as a great example of a tragedy.
What is Oedipus the King?
200
The description of Oedipus blinding himself is meant to cause this for the audience
What is catharsis?
300
This character serves to highlight, by contrast, the qualities of another
What is a foil?
300
This figure was notable for having a fatal flaw
What is a tragic hero?
300
This is Aristotle’s term for a change from ignorance to knowledge
What is recognition?
300
This modern drama stages a battle between Enlightenment and Romantic thought
What is Arcadia?
300
Chloe and Thomasina are these
What are foils?
400
This is the term for the structure of rising action, climax, and falling action
What is plot?
400
This is the experience of an audience when they release strong or repressed emotions and thus find relief from them
What is catharsis?
400
This group of performers commented on the main action, speaking and moving together
What is the chorus?
400
This play is an example of English Renaissance drama
What is Hamlet?
400
The character Hamlet is one of these
What is a tragic hero?
500
This serves to alleviate tension and add variety to a drama
What is comic relief?
500
He is the god of wine, the dance, and disguise, among other things
Who is Dionysus?
500
This form of theater abandoned conventional dramatic form in order to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world
What is Theater of the Absurd?
500
This is an example of Theater of the Absurd.
What is Waiting for Godot?
500
Here is an example of it: DEL: …You’ve all lied to me. Media substitutes. You’re not real people. You don’t correlate. (Churchill 100).
What is metatheater?