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Flashcards by Lucy Cerys, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lucy Cerys
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Action | Exposition, rising action, climax and denouement (falling away). |
| Catharsis | Emotional reaction of audience towards end of tragedy leaving sense of calm/cleansing. |
| Characters | Have to persuade audience to look at story from their perspective as performance texts prevent audience from seeing their thoughts as they might in written texts; protagonist faces main opposition known as antagonist. |
| Characterisation | Shaped by behaviour, behaviour of others towards character, appearance, costuming, gesture, tone of voice and dialogue amongst other features. |
| Comedy | Uses humour; can be verbal, physical or visual and usually has a happy ending. |
| Costume | Often symbolic; represents character and conveys messages about position of character. |
| Dialogue | Speech by characters; furthers action/plot and reflects character giving ideas about themes. |
| Dramatic Irony | Where audience knows in advance of character what has happened/will happen; used to engage audience in plot; may occur through use of soliloquy, or may be worked out through what is revealed to audience. |
| Empathy | Ability of audience to understand and share feelings of character. |
| Language | Conveys specific ideas about characters, their context and their place in a hierarchical class structure; can be poetic, formal, colloquial etc. |
| Monologue | One character speaking; used to convey important information to audience or build perspective. |
| Non-verbal elements | Includes set, stage directions, actions, costume, lighting and music amongst other features. |
| Pathos | Mood/tone which evokes pity from audience. |
| Setting | Where story is set (same as in narrative); builds context of story(time/place). |
| Set Design | Actual layout of stage. |
| Soliloquy | Where character shares private thoughts with audience; gives insight into character's innermost thoughts. |
| Staging | Stage directions and layout of stage; conveys information through set, movement, prop placement, character positioning etc; helps get from script to performance. |
| Themes | Central ideas in story; issues raised/challenged/implied/conveyed through settings/characters/events/relationships. |
| Tragedy | Events and character flaw lead to inevitable downfall of protagonist however dilemma previously faced is resolved. |
| Props | Stage properties. |
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