I Choose a correct explanation for each term and write the letter before each term.

a. It can encompass the rhythm of dialogue and speeches in a play or can also mean the aspects of the melody and music compositions as with musical theatre. Each theatrical presentation delivers music, rhythm and melody in its own distinctive manner.

b. It is the section of the plot beginning with inciting incident and proceeding forward to the crisis onto the climax. The action of the play will rise as it set up a situation of increasing intensity and anticipation. These scenes make up the body of the play and usually create a sense of continuous mounting suspense in the audience.

c. Tragicomedy is the most life like of all of the genres. It is non-judgmental and ends with no absolutes. It focuses on character relationships and shows society in a state of continuous flux. There is a mix of comedy and tragedy side by side in these types of plays.

d. The events of a play; the story as opposed to the theme; what happens rather than what it means.

e. This is the starting point of the theatrical performance. The element most often considered as the domain of the playwright in theatre. It is the text by which theatre is created.

f. What the play means as opposed to what happens (the plot). It may be stated through dialogue by a character acting as the playwright’s voice. Or it may be the theme is less obvious and emerges only after some study. The abstract issues and feelings that grow out of the dramatic action.

g. These are the people presented in the play that are involved in the perusing plot. Each one should have their own distinct personality, age, appearance, beliefs, socio economic background, and language.

h. This is the coordination of the creative efforts usually headed up in theatre by the director. The playwright’s work is brought to realization by the director, actors, designers, technicians, dancers, musicians, and any other collaborators that come together on the script, scenario, or plan.

i. The spectacle in the theatre can involve all of the aspects of scenery, costumes, and special effects in a production.

j. Together with dialog, it moves the plot and action along, provides exposition, defines the distinct characters. Each playwright can create their own specific style in relationship to language choices they use in establishing character and dialogue.

1.Theme/Ideas          6. Spectacle

2. Action/Plot          7. Tragicomedy

3. Characters          8. Script

4. Language          9. The Process

5. Music           10. Rising Action

II Fill in the blanks.

1. Drama is divided into the categories of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and _____. Each of these genre/forms can be further subdivide by style and content.

2. _____ is physical and energetic. It is tied up in rebirth and renewal which suggest a union of a couple and the expected birth of children. In it there is absence of pain and emotional reactions, and a replaced use of mans intellect. The behavior of the characters presented is ludicrous and sometimes absurd and the result in the audience is one of correction of behaviors.

3. This is the end result of the process of work involved. The final _____ that results from all of the labors coming together to complete the finished work of script, scenario, and plan, in union with all of the collaborators in the process to create the final product. This is what the audience will witness as they sit in the theatre and view the work.

4. Theatre requires _____. For all of the arts public is essential. The physical presence of it can change a performance, inspire actors, and create expectations.

5. Dramatic _____ involves the overall framework or method by which the playwright uses to organize the dramatic material and or action. Most modern plays are cut into acts that can be further divided into scenes. The pattern most often used is a method by where the playwright sets up early on in the beginning scenes all of the necessary conditions and situations out of which the later conditions will develop. Generally the wants and desires of one character will conflict with another character. With this method the playwright establishes a pattern of complication, _____ action, _____, and _____. This is commonly known as cause to effect arrangement of incidents.

6. _____ is important information that the audience needs to know in order to follow the main story line of the play. It is the aspects of the story that the audience may hear about but that they will not witness in actual scenes. It encompasses the past actions of the characters before the play’s opening scenes progress.

7. All of the earlier scenes and actions in a play will build technically to the highest level of dramatic intensity. This section of the play is generally referred to as the moment of the plays _____. This is the moment where the major dramatic questions rise to the highest level, the mystery hits the unraveling point, and the culprits are revealed. This should be the point of the highest stage of dramatic intensity in the action of the play.

8. The resolution is the moment of the play in which the conflicts are resolved. It is the solution to the _____ in the play, the answer to the mystery, and the clearing up of the final details. This is the scene that answers the questions raised earlier in the play. In this scene the methods and motives are revealed to the audience.

9. Shakespeare's masterpiece has four tragedies: “_____”, “_____”, “_____”, and “_____”.

III Answer the following questions with your own understanding.

1.What is drama?

2.What is tragedy?

3.What are the elements of drama by the theories of Aristotle?

4.What are the differences between reading a play and seeing a play?

5.What feelings should drama provides with audiences?