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