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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. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Sense memory
Posture
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Spontaneity imagination
2. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Pitch
Open
Articulators
Open
3. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Project
Inflection
Posture
Pitch
4. How high or low your voice is ______.
Pitch
Resonance
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Tempo
5. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Project
Articulators
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
6. 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 _______.
Cross
Quality
Subtext
Project
7. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Upstage
Shared position
Improvise
Posture
8. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Resonance.
Project
Ensemble
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
9. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Cold reading
Cross
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
10. Your customary way of holding your body
Gesture
Posture
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Cold reading
11. How loud or soft your voice is.
Volume
Beats
Cross
articulation
12. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Phrasing
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Upstage
Posture
13. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
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
Tempo
Subtext
Spontaneity imagination
14. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
Spontaneity imagination
articulation
Capabilities - limitations
Story - conflict
15. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Upstage
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Subtext
Volume
16. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Isolate
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Quality
17. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Shared Position
Cold Reading
Articulators
Pantomime
18. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Volume
Open
Story - conflict
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
19. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
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
Posture
Project
Breathing using diaphram
20. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Beats
Focus
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Observe
21. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
articulation
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
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
Script
22. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Impovise
Spontaneity imagination
Posture
23. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Gesture
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
24. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Posture
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Project
Ensemble
25. How loud or soft your voice is.
Open
Volume
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
26. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Resonators
Resonance
Pitch
Resonators
27. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
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
Pantomime
Pantomiming
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
28. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Character development
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
Inflection
Tempo
29. ______ is acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Pantomiming
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Story - conflict
Open
30. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Focus
Resonance
Open
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
31. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Resonance.
Tell - show
Open
32. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Posture
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Pitch
33. 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.
Upstage
Ensemble
Inflection
Articulation
34. 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.
Sense memory
Ensemble
Spontaneity imagination
Posture
35. 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
Tell - show
Resonance
Ensemble
Posture
36. What is good posture?
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Beats
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
37. Stealing focus of a scene.
Upstage
Capabilities - limitations
Tell - show
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
38. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Beats
Cold reading
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Quality
39. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Character development
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Cross
40. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Impovise
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Resonators
Project
41. What is good posture?
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Cold Reading
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Articulation
42. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Cross
Script
Spontaneity imagination
Story - conflict
43. What are the three elements of storytelling?
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44. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Script
Posture
Pantomime
Shared Position
45. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Phrasing
Cross
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Subtext
46. 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 _________.
articulation
Articulators
Shared position
Similarities - differences
47. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Observe
Tempo
Upstage
Pitch
48. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
articulation
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Resonators
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
49. What is diaphragmatic breathing
articulation
Breathing using diaphram
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Upstage
50. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Gesture
Cross
Inflection
Pitch