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