Terms

Question 0

Problem that engages them in a struggle

Answer 0

Conflict

Question 1

The moment of greatest emotional intensity, just before the outcome of the conflict is revealed

Answer 1

Climax

Question 2

What r the basic elements of drama 5

Answer 2

1. characters the audience cares about.
2. conflict which engages them in a struggle.
3. suspense that causes tension to mount.
4. climax, the moment of greatest emotional intensity.
5. main character undergoes a change.

Question 3

The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

Answer 3

Foreshadowing

Question 4

Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things with out using words such as like, as, than, reassembles

Answer 4

Metaphor

Question 5

Type of writing that give information or clarifies an idea

Answer 5

Exposition

Question 6

A figure of speech that compares to unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or reassembles

Answer 6

Simile

Question 7

The people in the drama must do something to save them selves

Answer 7

Desperate situation

Question 8

God of wine and fertility

Answer 8

Dionysos

Question 9

Character that serves as a contrast to another character

Answer 9

Foil

Question 10

Type of metaphor in witch a non human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

Answer 10

Personification

Question 11

Is a play or novel showing serious or important events were the mane character comes to a unhappy end

Answer 11

Tragedy

Question 12

A story that ends happily

Answer 12

Comedy

Question 13

Large outdoor place were plays can be watched

Answer 13

Amphitheater

Question 14

Thespis (2 things)

Answer 14

Transformed erly hymns that honored Dionysos but also toled a story of a famous hero or another god.
Second thing he did was have some one leave the coirs wearing a mask and play the part of the god or hero

Question 15

A playwright that added a second person

Answer 15

Aeschylus

Question 16

What the actors wore

Answer 16

Masks

Question 17

Comical play that made fun of other serious play

Answer 17

Satyr play

Question 18

Five characteristics of American drama

Answer 18

1. one-act play(invented in America)
2. everyday language
3. scenery that only suggested the scene
4. everyday characters as heroes
5. charicters face everyday problems

Question 19

The uncertainty or anxiety we feel about what’s going to happen next in a story

Answer 19

Suspense

Question 20

Driving back or repelling

Answer 20

Repulse

Question 21

To fill or satisfy

Answer 21

Sated

Question 22

Bold arrogant strut

Answer 22

Swagger

Question 23

Including all the relevant details

Answer 23

Comprehensive

Question 24

Mentally impaired

Answer 24

Senile

Question 25

Trite and moralizing

Answer 25

Sententiously

Question 26

Flexible and graceful

Answer 26

Lithe

Question 27

Bold disrespect

Answer 27

Insolence

Question 28

Show doubt or uncertainty about what to do

Answer 28

Waver

Question 29

Go beyond the limits of

Answer 29

Transcends