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