THEA 1040 Exam 1 Exam With Complete Solutions.

When/Where did theatre begin? - Answer-Ancient Greece, 500 BC What occurred each year in Greece? - Answer-Festival of Dionysus, included a drama; best play of the year awarded a prize. When did Aristotle write about subjects in his times? - Answer-third century B.C. What are Poetics? - Answer-study of literary expression; discussed drama at length What is the primary purpose of theatre? (Aristotle? - Answer-provide pleasure; greatest form of pleasure comes from learning the truth How did Aristotle approach his studies? - Answer-Focus on theatre's effects on society rather than what it should accomplish Three organizing unities - Answer-unity of action unity of time unity of place unity of action - Answer-play should only contain one plotline. secondary stories detract from main plot. plot should have beginning, middle, end. unity of time - Answer-the action occurs in one passage of consecutive time; 12 hr or 24 hr time period. (ex. 3 hr play covers 3 hrs of a day during the story) unity of place - Answer-play's action takes place in one setting only Six Elements of Drama - Answer-plot, character, thought, diction, music, spectacleplot - Answer-more important, the life and soul of a drama. series of ordered events that link the dramatic action character - Answer-agent of the action, character enacts events of the plot thought - Answer-theme/message of the play. the idea the audience extracts from the story diction - Answer-character's vocabulary; the order in which playwright organizes the words. vocabulary makes the character unique music - Answer-sound - encompasses everything the audience hears (songs, musical accompaniment, sound effects) spectacle - Answer-that which the audience sees. the least important.