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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. Trusting too much in the opinions of others.
Frigidity
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Secondhand Thinking
2. All points of view are equally valid. Opinion trumps diligent study and practice.
Secondhand Thinking
Relativist Fallacy
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
Biographical Fallacy
3. Seeking only to imitate rather than illuminate.
Imitative fallacy
Literal-Mindedness
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
Climaxes
4. Seeking only to determine what the playwright meant.
Simple and Complex Plots
Intentional Fallacy
Conflicts
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
5. 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.
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
Genetic Fallacy
Point of Attack
Frigidity
6. The opposition the characters face as they try to reach their goals and objectives
Inciting Action
Conflicts
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
7. Seeing the play as only a reflection of the life of the author
Primary Event
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Relativist Fallacy
Biographical Fallacy
8. Envisioning the play only as it has been done before.
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Simple and Complex Plots
Climaxes
9. The most important event that happened in the background story
Climaxes
Conflicts
Primary Event
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
10. The event that disrupts forever the normal lives of the characters in the play.
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Inciting Action
Secondhand Thinking
Literal-Mindedness
11. The events that follow the main climax of the play
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Resolution
Conflicts
12. The most dramatic and memorable moments of the play
Climaxes
Affective Fallacy
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Simple and Complex Plots
13. Using the words 'all' or 'never' to explain a play. Jumping to a conclusion without examining all the supporting evidence.
Genetic Fallacy
Secondhand Thinking
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Biographical Fallacy
14. Referring to whether or not a play utilizes recognitions and reversals
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
Affective Fallacy
Frigidity
Simple and Complex Plots
15. Refers to where the inciting event occurs in relation to the entirety of the play
Biographical Fallacy
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
Relativist Fallacy
Point of Attack
16. Focusing on what the play reminds you of rather than what the play says
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Relativist Fallacy
Affective Fallacy
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
17. Aspects of the play that modify its climaxes
Genetic Fallacy
Affective Fallacy
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
Fallacy of Illicit Process
18. Reducing complex issues down to one thing. The use of statments like - 'This play is nothing but a...'
Affective Fallacy
Frigidity
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Simple and Complex Plots
19. Lacking empathy. Not understanding the real human cost explored in the play.
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
Genetic Fallacy
Simple and Complex Plots
Frigidity
20. Using the same explanation for everything.
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Climaxes
Relativist Fallacy
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
21. Everyday reality is irrelevant to understanding a play as an artistic experience.
Conflicts
Intentional Fallacy
Literal-Mindedness
Fallacy of Illicit Process