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English 2029 Midterm
English 2029 Midterm
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Undergraduate 1
03/08/2012

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Term
Primary Ingredients of Drama
Definition

Action
Thought
Spectacle

Audience

Dialog 

Term
6 Elements of Drama
Definition

Setting

Character

Plot

Language

Theme

Music

Term
4 parts of Setting
Definition

Place

Time of Year

Time of Day

Era

Term

Character Parts

 

Definition

Dynamic versus Static

Protagonist vs Antagonist

Term
4 Types of Conflict
Definition

Man vs Man 

Man vs Nature

Man vs Society

Man vs Self

Term

Types of Plays during Medieval Drama

 

Definition

Mystery Plays

Miracle Plays 

Morality Plays

Term
Realism 
Definition
19th Century 
Term
Naturalism 
Definition

Early to mid 20th Century

Experimental Literature

Term
Types of Stages
Definition

Area ( in the round)

Apron (juts out)

Proscenium Stage ( surrounded on 3 sides)

 

Term
Difference between Reading and Seeing a play
Definition

Reading is an intellectual Response

Viewing is an emotional Response

Term
Conventional Divisions of Drama
Definition

Act (major unit or development)

Scene (Sections of Acts)

Line 

Term
Types of Audience
Definition

Readers

Theater Audience

Directors, Actors, Staff, Stage Crew

Term
4 levels of Literary Interpretation
Definition

Anagogic (Spiritual level)

Didactic (Learning a lesson)

Allegoric 

Literal 

 

Term

4 types of Weltanschauung

(literally means World View)

Definition

Man's view of himself

Man's view of his fellow man - singly - collectively

Man's view of the god concept

Man's view of the cosmos

Term
Dionysus 
Definition
God of wine, fertility, and revelry
Term
4 Dionysian Annual Celebrations
Definition

Rural Dionysia

Lenaia

Anthesteria 

City Dionysia

Term
Greek City States
Definition

Sparta - great military power

Athens - Academic center

Corinth 

Thebes

Argos

Megara

Term
Strophe
Definition
Right to left
Term
AntiStrophe
Definition
Left to Right
Term
Thespis
Definition
Founder of Greek Tragedy 
Term
Agon
Definition
Dramatic Confrontation
Term
Greek Tragedy 
Definition

Highest Dramatic form for Greeks

Focus on one person

Moira - Their fate

Catharsis - purging of pity and fear

Central Character of Nobility

Term
3 part pattern for Greek Tragedy 
Definition

Purpose (quest)

Passion (inner agony, soul searching)

Perception (Dreaded fate and Seperation from Community)

Term
Anagnorisis
Definition
Moment of Recognition
Term
Peripeteia
Definition
moment protaonists fortunes reverse
Term
 Aeschylus
Definition

Founder of Greek and Western Drama

90 plays, 

79 known plays only 7 exist.

Reduced the Chorus

Term
Sophocles 
Definition

Interested in psychology of character

Portrayed powerful women

Introduced third actor

Term
Aristophanes
Definition

Greek Playwright

Best Known Greek playwrights

Wrote Lysistrata

Master of Sexual Inndeundo and Slapstick

Term
Structure of Greek Play
Definition

Prologue 

Parados 

Episodes

Stasima

Exodos

Term
Alaric
Definition

King of Visigoths

Crossed the Alps and sacked Rome

Term
Quem Quareritis
Definition

Latin Phrase 

means "whom do you seek" 

Term
Chorpus Christi Day
Definition

honors the mystery which gives meaning to life.

 

Term
Apocrypha
Definition
Writings that did not get into the bible
Term
4 causes of Jealousy
Definition

Pleasure 

Passion 

Property 

Honour

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