DRAMA TERMS

Communicating thoughts and feelings through body movements. Examples include: crossing arms, furrowing the brow, hunching the shoulders, etc.

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• Mimos

• Body Language

True or False: Pantomimes can include props and costumes but often don’t; they have the performers mime the items.

• True

• False

When the current setting is interupted to go back in time to learn more about a character or a situation, it is called...

• Foreshadow
• Flashback

In Greek, “catharsis” means…

• a.Tragedy

• b.Explosion

• c.Cleansing

• d.Open mind

The main point of a farce is to make the audience…

• a.Feel confused

• b.Work to figure out the answer

• c.Laugh

• d.All of the above

Farce exists mainly in…

• a.Novels and short stories

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• b.Visual storytelling media (TV, film, theater, etc.)

• c.Ancient Greek literature

• d.Shakespearean

What can flashback do?

• a.Interrupt a chronological narrative

• b.Complicate a plot

• c.Further develop characters

• d.All of the above

Which of the following is NOT one of the essential elements of satire:

• a.Making fun of an idea, person, or institution

• b.Use of irony

• c.Making a broader point about society, culture, politics, etc.

• d.All of the above are essential elements of satire

“Deus ex machina” literally means:

• c.Out of the past

• d.A god from the machine

• a.In former days

• b.An unexpected machine

Hubris most nearly means…

• a.Destruction or defeat

• b.Enemy

• c.Poetic justice

• d.Overconfidence