Mears English Exam Study Guide- Drama
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wsorrell on May 14, 2009
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Drama Introduction Notes and The Dancers. don't forget the PARTS OF THE STAGE (down-left, up-center etc.) enjoy.
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Coach Carver History 9-Briarwood
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 drama | literature enacted in front of an audience by people who play the parts of characters |
| long before recorded history | drama has been a part of human culture since....... |
| ancient Greece | first literary dramas were created where? |
| ritual sacrifices | what was the purpose of the first dramas? |
| 5th century b.c. | Greek playwright Aeschylus added a second actor and drama as we know it was born when? |
| arena | stage in classical times, dramas were performed in open-air amphitheatres |
| pagents | stage in medieval times, dramas were performed on flat-bed wagons that could be drawn from town to town |
| thrust | stage in Elizabethan England, a platform that jutted into an area open to the sky was created |
| proscenium | stage in the 19th and 20th cent., the "picture stage" became common/ box-like area with 3 walls and a removed "4th wall" through which the audience views the action |
| comedy | any work with a happy ending/ DOES NOT have to be "funny" |
| tragedy | originally any story that told of the fall of a person OF HIGH STATUS/ in recent years it has come to mean any play about the downfall of a central character or protagonist |
| playwright | author of a play/ workman like a carpenter who shapes a play |
| script | the written form of a play that contains dialogue, stage directions, and divisions (acts, scenes) |
| dialogue | the speech of actors in a play |
| soliloquies | speeches given by an actor who is alone on stage |
| monologue | long speech given by an actor |
| aside | comment made to the audience but not heard by other actors on stage |
| acts | major divisions of a drama (ancient rome and elizabethan england had 5 but some modern plays have 1 or 3) |
| scenes | minor divisions of a drama, usuallyh beginning with the entrance of one or more character |
| stage directions | notes provided by the playwright to describe how something should be presented or performed on stage |
| spectacle | all the elements of the drama presented to the senses of the audience |
| lighting | helps convey the time of day, place, or mood for a scene |
| costumes and makeup | help actors achieve appearance of a character |
| set | everything placed on stage to give the audience the impression of a particular setting or time and place |
| properties | items that can be carried on and off the stage by actors or manupulated by actors during a scene |
| sound effects | sounds introduced to create mood or to indicate the prescence of something |
| blocking | act of determining where actors will stand and move on stage |
| she is determined that horace will have a social life | why does inez arrange for Horace to go to the dance with Emily? |
| sensitive and considerate | what kind of person is Horace? |
| they describe how elements in the play should look, sound, and be performed | stage directions help you picture the action of a play becuase.... |
| emily refuses to go with horace to the dance | what happens when horace goes to pick up emily for the dance? |
| inconsiderate and pushy | what kind of person is inez? |
| they both meddle in other people's business | in what way are inez stanley and elizabeth crews alike? |
| he stands up to inez by refusing to break his date with mary catherine | which action best describes horace's growing confidence? |
| emily's mother, who does not like emily's boyfriend leo, made the arrangements without consulting emily | why doesn't emily want to go to the dance with horace? |
| it is the natural meeting place where dialogue between characters occurs | why are a number of the scenes staged in the drugstore? |
| it highlights the location of the action | what major purpose does lighting have in this play? |
| to enable the action of the play to flow continuously from one area to another | what was the playwright's puurpose in dividing the stage into four acting areas? |
| they are considerate and encouraging toward each other | why are horace and mary catherine well suited for each other? |
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