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