Theatre Appreciation Ch. 1/2

The first challenge to theatre as a dramatic medium came from

• television.

• radio.

• silent movies.

• computer games.

Theatre is an event in which the performers are in the presence of the

• audience.

• press.

• ruling class.

• director.

At the heart of the theatre experience is the

• director-performer relationship.

• performer-audience relationship.

• audience-director relationship.

• performer-author relationship.

The degree of separation between the object or event that an artist creates and the audience that observes it is called

• aesthetic distance.

• intellectual separation.

• reinforcement.

• alienation.

Rapid movements back and forth in time are called

• crosscuts.

• reminiscences.

• flashbacks.

• fades.

An anachronism involves

• the relating of a story or event that happened prior to the start of the play.

• the refusal of the audience to suspend disbelief during a portion of the play.

• use of a metaphor to communicate the underlying meaning of the play.

• placing some character or event outside its proper time sequence.

When we say that one thing is like another, it is called a simile; when we say one thing is another, that is called a(n)

• anachronism.

• symbol.

• metaphor.

• substitution.

When an element of theatre resembles observed reality, it is considered

• realistic.

• nonrealistic.

• anachronistic.

• metaphoric.

Audience acceptance of a character that sings in a play or movie is called __________.

• theme

• acceptance

• willing suspension of disbelief

• tangible symbols

A flag is a

• symbol.

• metaphor.