Define the following terms used in drama.
1. Act
2. Playwright
3. Catharsis
4. deus ex machine
5. dramatis personae
6. dramatic unities
7. hamartia
8. pantomime
9. peripeteia
10. Arena
11. Medieval Theater
12. Elizabethan Theater
13. Proscenium
14. Theater of Cruelty
15. Eclectic Theater
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Answer:
1.Use of face, body, and voice to portray character. ... between the literal meaning and the underlying, or allegorical, meaning of the work.
2. Paying attention to what is being said. literary devices: word patterns or combinations used to elicit a certain audience response.
3.Catharsis, the purification or purgation of the emotions (especially pity and fear).
4. A person or thing that appears or is introduced into a situation suddenly and unexpectedly and provides an artificial or contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty.
5. The characters or actors in a drama. 2 singular in construction : a list of the characters or actors in a drama. 3 : people who figure prominently in something (such as an event)
6. These principles were called, respectively, unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time.
7. Hamartia, also called tragic flaw, (hamartia from Greek hamartanein, “to err”), inherent defect or shortcoming in the hero of a tragedy, who is in other respects a superior being favoured by fortune.
8. A dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.
9. Peripeteia, the turning point in a drama after which the plot moves steadily to its denouement.10.Arena theater definition, a theater with seats arranged on at least three sides around a central.