Question: In theatre production, this term is used to describe the basic motivation or drive that actors embody when they perform? Actors translate this drive into something physical.
Answer Choices:
Theatricality
Dynamics
Lifelikeness
Plasticity
Spine or Superobjective
Answer: Spine or Superobjective
Question: Which genre of theatre originally referred to dialogue against a musical background, and now refers to stereotypical characters in serious situations involving suspense, pathos, terror, and hatred, in which the forces of good and evil are often in a battle, with good tending to triumph over external forces.
Answer Choices:
Melodrama
Performance Art
Tragicomedy
Tragedy
Comedy
Answer: Melodrama
Question: Which of the following technical devices used in fiction is an overriding idea (what the author has to say) that shapes the other elements in a work?
Answer Choices:
Imagery
Character
Tone
Symbol
Theme
Answer: Theme
Question: As a performing art, the theatre director, designers, and actors all have to interpret and communicate the playwright’s vision to the audience through gesture, movement, language, character, thought, and spectacle.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: In theatre production, which part of the plot refers to the final resolution, with a sense of downward intensity from the climax?
Answer Choices:
Complication
Denouement
Exposition
Foreshadowing
Reversal
Answer: Denouement
Question: In theatre production, which theatre type contains an audience on one side only?
Answer Choices:
Proscenium
Thrust
Arena
Selective Visibility
Answer: Proscenium
Question: Effective use of language in literature can transform words into sensual images/pictures, real sounds, and a deep sense of mood and emotion.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following forms of literature uses technical devices such as meter, rhyme, and metaphor to convey a vivid and imaginative sense of experience, in addition to using condensed language chosen for sound, suggestive power, and meaning?
Answer Choices:
Poetry
Nonfiction
Drama
Fiction
Short Stories
Answer: Poetry
Question: Which of the following is NOT a technical device used in poetry to create sound structure?
Answer Choices:
Metaphor
Alliteration
Rhyme
Consonance
Assonance
Answer: Metaphor
Question: Which of the following is NOT a form of fiction?
Answer Choices:
Gothic
Epistolary
Sentimental
Biography
Historical
Answer: Biography