Dramatic Conventions

Question 0

How characters are dressed

Answer 0

Costuming

Question 1

When and where an action occurs

Answer 1

Setting

Question 2

What a character does to communicate ideas and form characterisation

Answer 2

Actions or stage directions

Question 3

“Look behind you moments”

• gets audience involved
• creates tension, involvement or sympathy

Answer 3

Dramatic irony

Question 4

Creates mood (visual)

• symbolic
• draws attention

Answer 4

Lighting and colour

Question 5

Makes scene more realistic and gives context

Answer 5

Probes and backdrop

Question 6

Help convey message

- fuel action

Answer 6

Character and body language

Question 7

Audible

• set scene
• foreshadow
• emphasise actions

Answer 7

Music

Sound fx

Question 8

Single lengthy speech

- other character are able to hear

Answer 8

Monologue

Question 9

Thought of character aloud that no other character can hear

Answer 9

Soliloquy

Question 10

What is a tragic hero?

- give example from SCND

Answer 10

Successful character that falls due to tragic flaw known as hubris
- Blanche: successful southern belle, but vanity and desire results in promiscuity and guilt leading into ultimate madness