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