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TA101 CHAPTERS 4-8 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
A script is a blueprint for a specific dramatic experience.
Why is a script like a blueprint?
Play attains finished form only in performance.
Plot: What happens in a play
What is a playwright's toolbox? Character: The people in a play
Language: What the characters say (dialogue)
What are the different types of Classical Exposition: Exposition via prologue
expositions? Modern Exposition: Exposition via dialogue
Points in plot when the character must make decisions as to how to overcome
Crisis
obstacles.
Climax Highest point of emotional intensity. Leads to resolution.
What is the difference between actual Actual Time: Time an audience spends watching a play.
and dramatic time? Dramatic Time: Time in a play's fictional world.
Agreed upon methods of getting something across quickly to audiences.
Playwrights have writing conventions to solve problems, pass along information,
develop plot and action, and create interest and suspense. These shortcuts make
What are drama's conventions?
it possible for playwrights to give information and present experiences that in real
life would require weeks or even years to occur, to tell two or three stories at
once, and to complicate and resolve stage action.
Handwrites draft, then works out revisions in theatre before writing final draft.
Shows inner workings of modern American family.
Themes:
Sam Shepard
Grown children's complicated relationships with parents
Quest for identity
Evaporation of cherished values
Playwrights who direct.
Mamet's characters are "wordsmiths":
Speak in fragments
Frequently profane
David Mamet Use language creatively to hustle other characters
Mamet explores myths of American capitalism:
Characters want to connect, but know only "the deal."
Characters experience failure of business as a moral model, become alienated
from themselves.
Catharsis A cleansing or purging of strong emotions.
Alienation effect (Verfemdung)
Distance encourages judgments about social and economic issues in play.
Started with outline, then summarized social and political ideas before building a
story based on the outline.
Epic theatre as eyewitness account.
Bertolt Brecht
Actors should differentiate from characters.
Actor/eyewitness never becomes character/victim.
Actors are free to comment on characters.
Jarring audience out of sympathetic feelings for characters
Encourages audience to be objective, to think
Plot Sequence of events with a beginning, middle, end.
Character Physiological and psychological makeup of persons in the play.
Meaning Underlying idea (theme, message).
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TA101 CHAPTERS 4-8 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
A script is a blueprint for a specific dramatic experience.
Why is a script like a blueprint?
Play attains finished form only in performance.
Plot: What happens in a play
What is a playwright's toolbox? Character: The people in a play
Language: What the characters say (dialogue)
What are the different types of Classical Exposition: Exposition via prologue
expositions? Modern Exposition: Exposition via dialogue
Points in plot when the character must make decisions as to how to overcome
Crisis
obstacles.
Climax Highest point of emotional intensity. Leads to resolution.
What is the difference between actual Actual Time: Time an audience spends watching a play.
and dramatic time? Dramatic Time: Time in a play's fictional world.
Agreed upon methods of getting something across quickly to audiences.
Playwrights have writing conventions to solve problems, pass along information,
develop plot and action, and create interest and suspense. These shortcuts make
What are drama's conventions?
it possible for playwrights to give information and present experiences that in real
life would require weeks or even years to occur, to tell two or three stories at
once, and to complicate and resolve stage action.
Handwrites draft, then works out revisions in theatre before writing final draft.
Shows inner workings of modern American family.
Themes:
Sam Shepard
Grown children's complicated relationships with parents
Quest for identity
Evaporation of cherished values
Playwrights who direct.
Mamet's characters are "wordsmiths":
Speak in fragments
Frequently profane
David Mamet Use language creatively to hustle other characters
Mamet explores myths of American capitalism:
Characters want to connect, but know only "the deal."
Characters experience failure of business as a moral model, become alienated
from themselves.
Catharsis A cleansing or purging of strong emotions.
Alienation effect (Verfemdung)
Distance encourages judgments about social and economic issues in play.
Started with outline, then summarized social and political ideas before building a
story based on the outline.
Epic theatre as eyewitness account.
Bertolt Brecht
Actors should differentiate from characters.
Actor/eyewitness never becomes character/victim.
Actors are free to comment on characters.
Jarring audience out of sympathetic feelings for characters
Encourages audience to be objective, to think
Plot Sequence of events with a beginning, middle, end.
Character Physiological and psychological makeup of persons in the play.
Meaning Underlying idea (theme, message).
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