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Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 4hrs 0mins
The two great periods in tragedy are
Ancient Greece and Elizabethan England
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Inciting incident
Select, arrange, heighten
This genre mixes tragedy and comedy to create a serious play that ends happily
Tragicomedy
Protagonist
Melodrama
Tragedy
The dramaturg has basically two functions ___________ and production dramaturgy
characterization
Protagonist
Comedy and tragedy
Literary management
The events or actions of secondary interest that often provide contrast to the main plot
Thought
Protagonist
subtext
Subplot
Two basic dramatic forms throughout theatre history
Select, arrange, heighten
Comedy and tragedy
A complication
Literary management
The first acknowledged dramaturg
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Comedy and tragidy
Select, arrange, heighten
Inciting incident
Aristotle described his six elements of tragedy in?
Cause and effect
deviation
expression
The Poetics
The leading character of a tragedy is most commonly known as the ____________________
subplot
expression
Protagonist
tragicomedy
The majority of plays are organized by ____________.
Literary management
Comedy and tragedy
Cause and effect
The Poetics
Physical, societal, psychological, and moral are the four levels of ________________
Literary management
Characterization
Protagonist
A complication
The background information the audience must have in order to understand what is going on in the action of a play
expression
Exposition
deviation
Protagonist
dramatic form often concerned about the nature of human existence, morality, or human relationships
Tragicomedy
Tragedy
Subtest
Subplot
Any new element that changes the direction of the action
Climax
deviation
Denouement
Spectacle
Overall structure of the play
Thought
Plot
Melodrama
Climax
Comedy is based on a ____________ from normality
Subtext
Deviation
Spectacle
Denouement
The highest point of suspense in a play
Inciting incident
Melodrama
Climax
Select, arrange, heighten
Overall structure of the play
Spectacle
Denouement
Thought
Plot
___________ comes after the climax
Meladrama
expression
Denouement
Plot
The character's true meaning behind the surface of their communication
Select, arrange, heighten
A complication
subtext
inciting incident
Three things that playwrights do to language
Comedy and tragedy
Select, arrange, heighten
Inciting incident
Plot
All of the visual elements of a play
expression
spectacle
melodrama
climax
This genre features a clearly defined role of good and evil
comedy and tragedy
melodrama
deviation
denoument
The background information the audience must have in order to understand what is going on in the action of a play is known as
complication
exposition
dramaturg
subtext
Style in drama results from a distinctive mode of _________
cause and effect
thought
expression
melodrama
