Across
- 2. Scene or speech which precedes the main action of the play and provides some insight or comment on the action.
- 4. This type of monologue provides the audience with omniscience for that character.
- 7. (or Apron Stage) If he took out the middle four seats, Mr. Bellini’s classroom setup would be an example of this type of stage.
- 8. Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play.
- 10. Interrupting a tragic scene with a funny moment is __________ _____.
- 11. It’s important to ___________ a scene to ensure that characters aren’t just standing facing each other the whole time, or wandering around aimlessly.
- 15. Means “excessive pride”
- 16. At the end of the movie Jurassic Park there is an example of ______ ___ ______________. Just as the main characters find themselves in a no-win scenario with the raptors, the tyrannosaurus saves them at the last moment.
- 17. ____ II, Scene 3
- 19. This is a short direction indicated by parentheses or italics, in the beginning of a scene or before a line. Some writers use them and some don’t.
- 21. This is normally written in italics, and can be found at the beginning of a play, or at the start of a new scene to tell the reader or direction how the scene should look.
- 26. Act I, _________ 1
- 27. For a novel, we’d call her a novelist; for poetry we’d call her a poet; for drama we’d call her a dramatist, or a ____________________.
- 29. Means “tragic flaw”
- 32. This is a scene or speech which follows the main action of the play and provides some insight or comment on the action.
Down
- 1. A speech by a single character without another character's response.
- 3. A quality of a play's action that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character.
- 5. The spectacle a play presents in performance, including the position of actors on stage, the scenic background, the props and costumes, and the lighting and sound effects.
- 6. A common scene in situational comedies is having a character hide in a closet when another character enters the room. The audience knows the character is hiding, but the character that has just entered does not. The audience laughs because of the ____________ ___________.
- 9. a stage that is separated from the audience. The audience looks through the fourth wall to see the action.
- 12. Examples: the country bumpkin, the shrewish wife, the braggart soldier
- 13. A Shakespearean play is usually categorized as a ___________, a comedy or a history.
- 14. The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text and interpreted by an actor in performance. (from answers.com)
- 18. This is the imaginary wall of the proscenium or box theater setting, supposedly removed to allow the audience to see the action.
- 20. In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the title character often turns to the camera and speaks, even when others are present, which is an example of an _____________.
- 22. In many Greek, Roman, and even some Elizabethan dramas, the ____________ provided reactions to the events on stage at the beginning of each Act.
- 23. en scene Means literally “put in the scene” or arrangement of the scene.
- 24. At the end of Romeo and Juliet, the audience experiences ___________ because their feelings of pity and fear (concerning the unlucky deaths of many characters) is purged through the families’ agreement to build statues of the deceased and to end the feud.
- 25. The smallest division of action in a play (smaller than a scene). The length of time necessary for a character to play an "Objective" (also called "Intention") from beginning to end.
- 28. In the Men in Black movies, Agent K is a _________ to Agent J, in that the former serious and dead-pan, while the latter is flamboyant and sarcastic.
- 30. A motion of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasize speech.
- 31. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune (usually for the better) due to miscommunication and comic circumstances.