Phyllis Wong TH 210 Final 2025
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4th Wall - ✔✔the screen viewers "look through" during a play
History of Athens - ✔✔plays happened in open air theaters, origin of theater traces back
to classical Athens
Function of Greek Chorus - ✔✔provide background and summary information to
audience to help them understand and follow the performance
Greek Tragedy - ✔✔often depict the tragic downfall of their main characters, brought
about by their own flaws and failings
Greek Comedy - ✔✔featured common, everyday characters who, over the course of the
story, elevated their standing
Catharsis - ✔✔the process of releasing and thereby providing relief from, strong or
repressed emotions
Hubris - ✔✔excessive pride or self confidence
Dithyramb - ✔✔a wild choral hymn of Ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to
Dionysus; a passionate or inflated speech, poem or other writing
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, Hamartia - ✔✔a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
Ovation Inflation - ✔✔phenomenon where the audience gives an undeserved standing
ovation to a perform for a mediocre performance
Color Theory - ✔✔the study of how colors interact and effect human perception,
emotion and communication
Renaissance - ✔✔drama written between the reformation and the closure of theaters in
1642
The Globe Theatre - ✔✔a theater in southwark London; erected in 1599; heavily
associated with William Shakespeare, built in 1599
Iambic Pentameter - ✔✔a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry;
describes the rhythm established in a line
Rhythm - ✔✔regulated succession of strong and weak elements to make a pattern
3 Worlds in Midsummers - ✔✔the lovers, the mechanicals, the fairies
Subtext - ✔✔the implicit or metaphorical meaning
"Wright" - ✔✔to build
Imagery - ✔✔visually descriptive or figurative language
Dynamic Lighting - ✔✔ability to control or stimulate the effects of light sources that
vary in intensity, direction, or color
Aesthetic Distance - ✔✔a kind of psychological gap between what the audience
perceives as artwork and what they take to be reality
Presentational Acting - ✔✔"breaks" the Fourth Wall, as actors turn and acknowledge
the presence of the audience, addressing the audience directly. Often seen in musicals
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Pass
4th Wall - ✔✔the screen viewers "look through" during a play
History of Athens - ✔✔plays happened in open air theaters, origin of theater traces back
to classical Athens
Function of Greek Chorus - ✔✔provide background and summary information to
audience to help them understand and follow the performance
Greek Tragedy - ✔✔often depict the tragic downfall of their main characters, brought
about by their own flaws and failings
Greek Comedy - ✔✔featured common, everyday characters who, over the course of the
story, elevated their standing
Catharsis - ✔✔the process of releasing and thereby providing relief from, strong or
repressed emotions
Hubris - ✔✔excessive pride or self confidence
Dithyramb - ✔✔a wild choral hymn of Ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to
Dionysus; a passionate or inflated speech, poem or other writing
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, Hamartia - ✔✔a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
Ovation Inflation - ✔✔phenomenon where the audience gives an undeserved standing
ovation to a perform for a mediocre performance
Color Theory - ✔✔the study of how colors interact and effect human perception,
emotion and communication
Renaissance - ✔✔drama written between the reformation and the closure of theaters in
1642
The Globe Theatre - ✔✔a theater in southwark London; erected in 1599; heavily
associated with William Shakespeare, built in 1599
Iambic Pentameter - ✔✔a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry;
describes the rhythm established in a line
Rhythm - ✔✔regulated succession of strong and weak elements to make a pattern
3 Worlds in Midsummers - ✔✔the lovers, the mechanicals, the fairies
Subtext - ✔✔the implicit or metaphorical meaning
"Wright" - ✔✔to build
Imagery - ✔✔visually descriptive or figurative language
Dynamic Lighting - ✔✔ability to control or stimulate the effects of light sources that
vary in intensity, direction, or color
Aesthetic Distance - ✔✔a kind of psychological gap between what the audience
perceives as artwork and what they take to be reality
Presentational Acting - ✔✔"breaks" the Fourth Wall, as actors turn and acknowledge
the presence of the audience, addressing the audience directly. Often seen in musicals
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