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HISTORY OF ORAL INTERP
PERSONA
POETRY TERMS
CHARACTER ELEMENTS
ACTING TERMS
100
During the 1800s through mid-1900s people read out loud.
What is something people used to do for entertainment?
100
The first thing an actor should do to find out who the persona is.
What is the poet's biography?
100
What we turn our poems into for performance.
What is a monologue?
100
The external appearance of a character such hair color, clothing they wear, weight, etc.
What is the physical character element?
100
The audience's right.
What is stage left?
200
Famous authors such as Charles Dickens did this for money.
What is reading out loud publicly?
200
The poet
What is a non-fictional persona?
200
A comparison between unlike things
What is a metaphor?
200
The organic make-up of the character—age, ethnicity, gender, and health.
What is the biological character element?
200
The front of the stage.
What is downstage?
300
Acting stories and other literature out loud such as John Leguizamo's FREAK.
What is solo performance?
300
Big issues such the meaning of life, finding love, the importance of family, appreciating nature, etc.
What are possible concerns and values of the poem?
300
The main point of a lyric poem.
What is the cap?
300
Personality traits—characters always have more than one trait.
What is the temperamental character element?
300
Where the actors move on the stage. Examples: walking, sitting, kneeling, lying down, dancing, etc.
What is blocking?
400
Electronic media such as movies, television, and the internet were probably the reason.
Why did reading out loud stop being popular?
400
When you find connections between the poet's life and certain words in the poem such Pittsburgh or a career such as teaching.
What is looking at the language of the poem?
400
Writing on one's observations about life or ones feelings and opinions about something.
What is a lyric poem?
400
Values, whatever is important to the character, religious beliefs, moral values, etc.
What is the deliberative character element?
400
When you look up or down, appearing to think.
What is internal focus?
500
A branch of knowledge, which views all human experience as performance.
What is Performance Studies?
500
Looking at some realistic activity such as taking a walk, waking up in the morning, going to the dentist, thinking about your daughter, etc.
What is the dramatic situation of a poem?
500
The persona always wants to achieve something. Examples: to persuade, to enlighten, to unload.
What is an intention?
500
Background information on a character, which includes family, friends, clubs, hobbies, education, employment, etc.
What is the social character elements?
500
The speaker's attitude towards what he or she is saying.
What is tone?