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