5 Written Questions

1. Performed at the beginning of a performance, showing the audience through actions, and no words, a parody of what they are about to see.
2. The imaginary divide that separates the audience from the performance space.
3. A type of performance space where the audience surrounds three sides, and raises high above a very open stage; usually there is no main act curtain.
4. The offstage areas directly to the right and left of the performance space.
5. irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play

5 Matching Questions

1. Anecdote
2. Falling action
3. Box Set
4. Fly System
5. Blocking precise

1. a a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical.
2. b A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage, operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
3. c the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved
4. d A type of setting that is built on the stage to look like the interior of a house or room, having three walls and no ceiling.
5. e Stage directions and movements given to an actor by the script or the director.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Excessive pride
   1. Chorus
   2. Hold
   3. Hubris
   4. House
2. Busy work for the actor while playing on the stage to establish character, setting, and situation.
   1. Sides
   2. Subtext
   3. Business
   4. Cue
3. the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something, (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.
   1. Flat
   2. Aside
   3. climax
   4. Climax
4. To act out very physically without using words; a style of acting that is most often utilized in Children's Theatre.
   1. Strike
   2. Pantomime
   3. Monologue
   4. Interview
5. The area of the performance space that is farthest away from the audience.
   1. Cue
   2. Spectacle
   3. Downstage
   4. Upstage

5 True/False Question

1. Strike → Selections taken from a script used for an actor to read a scene aloud (usually used at an audition for a cold reading).
   

   True        False

2. Follow Spot → A drawn picture of a set, as seen from a bird's eye view (from above), using geometric shapes to represent set pieces and levels.
   

   True        False

3. Cross → A contrast between what happens and what is expected to happen
   

   True        False

4. Oxymoron → Conclusion of the play
   

   True        False

5. Irony → A contrast between what happens and what is expected to happen
   

   True        False