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Freshman Acting
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Study First
Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 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. How high or low your voice is ______.
Resonance
Pitch
Cross
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
2. When was storytelling originated?
Focus
Shared position
Phrasing
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
3. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Pitch
Phrasing
Shared Position
Focus
4. Your customary way of holding your body
Volume
Tempo
Posture
Spontaneity imagination
5. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Open
Phrasing
Quality
Resonance.
6. Through your interactions - you will begin to develop a working - tursting relationships wand to learn what it takes to be a part of an ______ - a group whose individuals function together to create a whole.
Cold Reading
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Posture
Ensemble
7. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Project
Articulators
Cold Reading
Script
8. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Beats
Tempo
Spontaneity imagination
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
9. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Observe
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
10. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Pantomime
11. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Articulation
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Articulators
12. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage - forming the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor; stealing focus of a scene is called _________.
Inflection
Shared position
Cold Reading
Pitch
13. Through your interactions - you will begin to develop a working - tursting relationships wand to learn what it takes to be a part of an ______ - a group whose individuals function together to create a whole.
Open
Resonators
Tell - show
Ensemble
14. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Breathing using diaphram
Pitch
Isolate
Quality
15. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Project
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Articulators
Inflection
16. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Project
Gesture
articulation
17. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Posture
Story - conflict
Pantomiming
Sense memory
18. Information This is implied but not stated directly by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken words is _______.
Pitch
Subtext
Capabilities - limitations
Volume
19. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Tell - show
Resonance
Isolate
20. The text of the play.
Script
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Articulators
Project
21. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Project
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Story - conflict
Tell - show
22. ______ is acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Pantomiming
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Articulators
Script
23. A major difference between the traditions of storytelling and theatre is that storytellers generally _____ a story - punctuation it with the imitation of character voices and gestures - while actors generally ____ a show - supply explanation when nec
Spontaneity imagination
Shared Position
Tell - show
Cross
24. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Project
Tempo
Posture
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
25. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Inflection
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Character development
26. Information that is implied but not stated directly by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken words
Sense memory
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Subtext
Ensemble
27. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Open
Capabilities - limitations
Project
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
28. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage - forming the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor; stealing focus of a scene is called _________.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Upstage
Shared position
Script
29. ______ is acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Pantomiming
Articulation
Sense memory
30. When you understand the _____ and ______ between you and the character you will be portraying - those _______ and ______ can be accentuated by your body and your voice.
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Similarities - differences
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
31. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Articulators
Inflection
Subtext
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
32. To move from one place onstage to another.
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Cross
Upstage
33. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Cross
Open
articulation
Focus
34. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Cold reading
Articulators
35. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Articulators
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Beats
36. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Tell - show
Phrasing
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
37. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Observe
Similarities - differences
Improvise
Articulation
38. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Capabilities - limitations
Pitch
Ensemble
39. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Focus
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Tell - show
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
40. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Similarities - differences
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Shared Position
Resonators
41. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Pitch
Isolate
Tempo
Project
42. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Posture
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
43. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Pantomiming
Open
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Subtext
44. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Impovise
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Breathing using diaphram
45. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Articulators
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Cross
46. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Cross
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Articulators
Resonators
47. How high or low your voice is
Observe
Cross
Pitch
Pitch
48. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Inflection
Inflection
Resonance.
49. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Subtext
Cross
Quality
Phrasing
50. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Pantomime
Focus
Cross
Articulation