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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. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Isolate
Shared position
Tempo
Pitch
2. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Project
Posture
Tempo
Isolate
3. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Focus
Articulation
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Articulators
4. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Upstage
Cross
Articulators
5. When was storytelling originated?
Articulators
Shared Position
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
6. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Subtext
Gesture
Breathing using diaphram
Improvise
7. To move from one place onstage to another.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Inflection
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Cross
8. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Breathing using diaphram
Resonance
Pantomiming
9. What are the three elements of storytelling?
10. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
11. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions 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
Inflection
Tell - show
Open
12. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Improvise
Open
Posture
Cold reading
13. What is good posture?
Breathing using diaphram
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Observe
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
14. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Impovise
Project
Quality
Breathing using diaphram
15. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Cold reading
articulation
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Subtext
16. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
17. How high or low your voice is
Pitch
Open
Impovise
Volume
18. When was storytelling originated?
Phrasing
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Similarities - differences
Upstage
19. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Resonators
Impovise
Improvise
Inflection
20. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Resonance.
Cross
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Open
21. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Subtext
Resonators
Capabilities - limitations
Project
22. What is good posture?
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Tell - show
articulation
23. 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
Tempo
Subtext
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Focus
24. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Pantomime
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
Story - conflict
Open
25. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Inflection
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
26. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Project
Upstage
Resonance.
Sense memory
27. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Beats
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Shared Position
28. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Observe
Upstage
Tempo
Sense memory
29. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Articulation
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Articulators
30. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Project
Tempo
Volume
31. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Cold reading
Story - conflict
Isolate
Impovise
32. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Script
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Gesture
Phrasing
33. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Sense memory
Shared position
Pitch
Resonators
34. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Inflection
Upstage
Subtext
35. How high or low your voice is ______.
Open
Pitch
Observe
Capabilities - limitations
36. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Cross
Subtext
Open
37. Your customary way of holding your body
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Improvise
Posture
Resonance
38. 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
Similarities - differences
Character development
Tell - show
Isolate
39. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Resonance.
Pitch
Story - conflict
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
40. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Script
Character development
Resonance
Script
41. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Volume
articulation
Isolate
42. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Script
Gesture
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
43. What are the two types of movement covered in pantomime?
Improvise
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Resonance
Breathing using diaphram
44. The text of the play.
Tell - show
Script
Articulators
Inflection
45. 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.
articulation
Focus
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Ensemble
46. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Upstage
Sense memory
Sense memory
Articulators
47. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Volume
Focus
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Shared position
48. 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.
Shared position
Ensemble
Similarities - differences
Tell - show
49. 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.
Upstage
Tell - show
Similarities - differences
Articulators
50. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Articulation
Open
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Articulators