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