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