Chapter 9 - Theater

A play that makes you laugh, has a happy ending, a reaffirms values

• High Comedy

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Drama

A serious performance that makes you sad

• Slapstick

• Farce

• Low Comedy

• Drama

A type of genre that is low comedy and usually involves someone falling or getting hurt

• Low comedy

• Farce

• Slapstick

• High comedy

A type of comedy where characters are laughed at more because of what they do rather than say

• Comedy of the absurd

• High comedy

• Farce

• Low comedy

A play that touches us less profoundly and appears serious with the protagonist victorious at the end.

• Melodramatic

• Tragedy

• Comedy

• Slapstick

a type of comedy usually about middle class people in which laughter results from embarrassing situations

• Comedy of the absurd

• Low comedy

• Melodramatic

• Domestic comedy

This type of play makes you laugh and feel liberated by improbable things that happen

• Farce

• Comedy

• Slapstick

• Low comedy

This type of comedy has elegant, rich characters who are concerned with how they live

• Low comedy

• High comedy

• Slapstick

• Comedy of the absurd

A serious play that makes you fell exhilarated and the hero's experience teaches a profound truth about life

• Tragic comedy

• Slapstick

• Farce

• Tragedy

A type of play where you laugh at the serious things and cry at the funny moments

• Low comedy

• High comedy

• Tragic comedy

• Farce