Deck 6: The Art of Playwriting

Question 1

Some people would say that there are no new stories to be told.Everything is a variation on a familiar theme.What do you think about that critique? If it is true,what becomes the interest for us as an audience to see the next play or attend the opening of the next film?

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Which type of union requires membership? (For example,the WGA)

Answer 2

Closed-shop union

Question 3

Who is the protagonist of this story?

A)President's shy daughter
B)Oprah
C)Literary art
D)The Porsche
E)Brad

Answer 3

E

Question 4

What structural part of the story does (1)indicate?

A)Opening event
B)Catharsis
C)Dark moment
D)Enlightenment

Question 5

A statement about life,or a central idea,or a moral describes what aspect of a play?

Question 6

What structural part of the story does (7)indicate?

A)Complication
B)Enlightenment
C)Disturbance
D)Climax
E)Major decision

Question 7

What structural part of the story does (5)indicate?

A)Complication
B)Enlightenment
C)Disturbance
D)Climax
E)Dark moment

Question 8

What structural part of the story does (4)indicate?

A)Complication
B)Enlightenment
C)Disturbance
D)Climax
E)Major decision

Question 9

What structural part of the story does (6)indicate?

A)Opening event
B)Climax
C)Dark moment
D)Enlightenment
E)Catharsis

Question 10

This story is an example of...

A)Realism
B)A full plot
C)A nonformula plot
D)A formula plot

Question 11

What structural part of the story does (2)indicate?

A)Complication
B)Enlightenment
C)Disturbance
D)Climax
E)Major decision

Question 12

A line of dialogue has two levels: what the character says (the text)and what the character consciously or subconsciously means.This second level is called...

Question 13

What structural part of the story does (8)indicate?

A)Climax
B)Dark moment
C)Catharsis
D)Enlightenment

Question 14

What structural part of the story does (3)indicate?

A)Climax
B)Enlightenment
C)Disturbance
D)Major decision

Question 15

A short description of how a line of dialogue is to be performed is a __________.

Question 16

Exposition,sometimes called ____________,lets the audience in on what happened to the characters before the play began and what happens between the scenes and offstage.

Question 17

Can plays make good screenplays? Can the opposite be true? Why,or why not?