DRAMA AND THEATRE FP1 EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
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Dual nature of dramatic texts - ANS dramas = texts that are written to be performed as plays,
not purely written to be read, act as scripts
collective nature of production and reception - ANS communication situation at play
different, several people involved in production, usually attended by large audiences
stage directions - ANS part of secondary text, printed in italics, detailed information about
HOW text is to be performed, infos about stage set and characters' gestures and facial
expressions
primary text - ANS characters' utterances, spoken aloud during performance
secondary text - ANS all parts not part of dialogue, stage directions, gestures, facial
expressions, title, dramatis personae
speech tags - ANS identifies which character is speaking
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, multimediality - ANS preparing a drama for performance = form of literary adaption,
dramatic text = written form --> theatre performance = non verbal and verbal modes of
communication, involves acoustic (voices, noises, music), optical dimensions (set,facial
expressions, ... )
Amphitheatre - ANS ancient greek plays, football stadium size, lack of stage set, distance
from audience, realistic performane impossible
Elizabethan public/platform/apron stage - ANS close contact between actors and audience,
lit by natural daylight, minimal set - audience imagination, word scenery was essential through
characters' description of places
picture-frame stage - ANS today's most common stage form, box-like structure, creation of
aesthetic illusions, presents realistic settings, watching world through "transparent" fourth wall,
actors behave as if there were no spectators
dramatic conventions - ANS set of rules which both audience and actors are familiar with,
f.e. Shakespeare: character can move upstage to deliver soliloquy and will not be heard by
other characters, or characters start singing in musical = not weird
communication system - internal level - ANS characters can move between roles of
addresser and addressee, dialogue most important medium for transmission of information
communication system - external level - ANS reading: author = addresser, dramatic text =
message, reader = addressee
theatre performance: whole theatre apparatus=addresser, performance=message, audience =
addressee
character perspective - ANS view of the fictional world of every character determined by
character's:
-level of knowledge
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QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS | LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.
Dual nature of dramatic texts - ANS dramas = texts that are written to be performed as plays,
not purely written to be read, act as scripts
collective nature of production and reception - ANS communication situation at play
different, several people involved in production, usually attended by large audiences
stage directions - ANS part of secondary text, printed in italics, detailed information about
HOW text is to be performed, infos about stage set and characters' gestures and facial
expressions
primary text - ANS characters' utterances, spoken aloud during performance
secondary text - ANS all parts not part of dialogue, stage directions, gestures, facial
expressions, title, dramatis personae
speech tags - ANS identifies which character is speaking
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, multimediality - ANS preparing a drama for performance = form of literary adaption,
dramatic text = written form --> theatre performance = non verbal and verbal modes of
communication, involves acoustic (voices, noises, music), optical dimensions (set,facial
expressions, ... )
Amphitheatre - ANS ancient greek plays, football stadium size, lack of stage set, distance
from audience, realistic performane impossible
Elizabethan public/platform/apron stage - ANS close contact between actors and audience,
lit by natural daylight, minimal set - audience imagination, word scenery was essential through
characters' description of places
picture-frame stage - ANS today's most common stage form, box-like structure, creation of
aesthetic illusions, presents realistic settings, watching world through "transparent" fourth wall,
actors behave as if there were no spectators
dramatic conventions - ANS set of rules which both audience and actors are familiar with,
f.e. Shakespeare: character can move upstage to deliver soliloquy and will not be heard by
other characters, or characters start singing in musical = not weird
communication system - internal level - ANS characters can move between roles of
addresser and addressee, dialogue most important medium for transmission of information
communication system - external level - ANS reading: author = addresser, dramatic text =
message, reader = addressee
theatre performance: whole theatre apparatus=addresser, performance=message, audience =
addressee
character perspective - ANS view of the fictional world of every character determined by
character's:
-level of knowledge
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