Freytag's Pyramid

What is DRAMATIC STRUCTURE?

• Aristotle's poems about plays and performance

• Aristotle's idea that stories can be broken into elements

• A theory about Aristotle's plays and how they were written

Gustav Freytag's Pyramid is a dramatic structural framework that

• has two halves and a middle point.

• has two opposing parts.

• has five sections.

The five structural elements in Freytag's Pyramid are divided into

• play and counterplay.

• rising action and catastrophe.

• three distinct acts and scenes.

Which of the following are elements of Freytag's Triangle? (Mark all the appropriate options)

• Introduction

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Catastrofe

Freytag's Pyramid originally theorizes that the first structural element - called the introduction - contains which of the following options? (Choose 2 options)

• Exposition

• Exciting Force

• Setting

Freytag's introduction serves the purpose of (choose 2)

• introducing principal characters.

• introducing the setting.

• introducing the Rising Movement.

Which of the following are part of Freytag's original Plot Pyramid Diagram?

• Introduction

• Exposition

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

For the INTRODUCTION, the author of the article states that EXPOSITION is

• a set of scenes in which no major changes occur and serves to introduce the main characters and setting.

• a series of scenes in which we are acquainted with the STATUS QUO and time and place of the action.

• a set of scenes in which no major changes take place and which purpose is to introduce the protagonists and the conflict.

The __________ __________ is what propels the protagonist and story into motion.

RISING MOVEMENT is nowadays more commonly referred to as

• RISING ACTION.

• CONFLICT.

• FALLING ACTION.

• THEME.