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Directing Plays
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 21 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The event that disrupts forever the normal lives of the characters in the play.
Inciting Action
Simple and Complex Plots
Conflicts
Genetic Fallacy
2. Envisioning the play only as it has been done before.
Literal-Mindedness
Point of Attack
Climaxes
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
3. Using the words 'all' or 'never' to explain a play. Jumping to a conclusion without examining all the supporting evidence.
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Point of Attack
Primary Event
4. All points of view are equally valid. Opinion trumps diligent study and practice.
Simple and Complex Plots
Relativist Fallacy
Intentional Fallacy
Conflicts
5. Reducing complex issues down to one thing. The use of statments like - 'This play is nothing but a...'
Simple and Complex Plots
Affective Fallacy
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
6. Refers to where the inciting event occurs in relation to the entirety of the play
Point of Attack
Genetic Fallacy
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Biographical Fallacy
7. Everyday reality is irrelevant to understanding a play as an artistic experience.
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
Genetic Fallacy
Literal-Mindedness
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
8. Seeking only to imitate rather than illuminate.
Frigidity
Imitative fallacy
Affective Fallacy
Inciting Action
9. The opposition the characters face as they try to reach their goals and objectives
Conflicts
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
Intentional Fallacy
Resolution
10. The events that follow the main climax of the play
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Biographical Fallacy
Simple and Complex Plots
Resolution
11. Trusting too much in the opinions of others.
Intentional Fallacy
Genetic Fallacy
Secondhand Thinking
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
12. Seeing the play as only a reflection of the life of the author
Inciting Action
Frigidity
Biographical Fallacy
Relativist Fallacy
13. Focusing on what the play reminds you of rather than what the play says
Primary Event
Frigidity
Climaxes
Affective Fallacy
14. Referring to whether or not a play utilizes recognitions and reversals
Simple and Complex Plots
Secondhand Thinking
Resolution
Relativist Fallacy
15. Worrying more about the origins of a play - its place in history - or the world of the playwright than what the play says about itself.
Imitative fallacy
Inciting Action
Genetic Fallacy
Affective Fallacy
16. The most dramatic and memorable moments of the play
Climaxes
Biographical Fallacy
Relativist Fallacy
Intentional Fallacy
17. Using the same explanation for everything.
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Affective Fallacy
Secondhand Thinking
18. The most important event that happened in the background story
Climaxes
Secondhand Thinking
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Primary Event
19. Aspects of the play that modify its climaxes
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Literal-Mindedness
20. Seeking only to determine what the playwright meant.
Relativist Fallacy
Intentional Fallacy
Inciting Action
Fallacy of Illicit Process
21. Lacking empathy. Not understanding the real human cost explored in the play.
Climaxes
Frigidity
Resolution
Relativist Fallacy