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Ch. 2 What is a Play - Coggle Diagram

- - - - One acts one hour or less
      - ten minute plays
  - - - a profoundly serious play that always ends in the death of one or more of its main characters and focuses on a universal theme about human life and society.
        
        Aristotle's construction
        
        anagnorisis
        
        protagonist's self-recognition
        
        hamartia
        
        fundemental mistake
        
        peripeteia
        
        a reversal of fortunes that leads to demise
        
        catharsis purging of emotions
- - - - why things happen, not just that they do
        
        entrances, exits, revelations, reversals, quarrels, discoveries, and actions that take place on stage
        
        plot entails not only the actions of a play but also the inactions--the things that are narrowly rejected and do not happen.
    - - fictional by writing human by performance
    - - what the play is expressing: the arguments and concepts that word "theme" as we use tit today.
    - - literary character of a play's text
        
        Tone,
        
        imagery,
        
        cadence,
        
        articulation,
        
        literary forms
        
        verse,
        
        rhyme,
        
        metaphor,
        
        apostrophe,
        
        jest,
        
        epigram.
      - actors voice
    - - songs
      - score
      - music heard by cariters
    - - "something seen."
        
        dramatic
        
        costumes
        
        setting
        
        dramatic visual effect
        
        subtle
        
        simple stage picture
        
        mise-en-scene:"Seen in the scene"
        
        arrangement of bodies/ objects
    - - unspoken language between audience and actors
        
        asides:a line addressed directly to the audience, unheard by the other characters
        
        lights fading and coming back on signaling time changes
        
        "freeze" one character thoughts
  - - - the time before play. often set is dramatically light to set the mood
    - - The Exposition
        
        the background information the audience must have in order to understand what's going on in the action of a play
      - The Conflict
        
        the mechanisms by which a situation becomes dramatic.
        
        character's decision must proceed from powerfully conflicting alternatives
        
        may be set up between characters as well as
        
        need to see characters think and work
      - The Climax
        
        culminates in some sort of dramatic explosion
        
        its most extreme--the moment of maximum tension.
      - The Denoument
        
        (the word in French means "un-knotting"), in which a final action or speech, or even a single word or gesture, indicates that the passions aroused by the play's action are now stilled and the conflicts are over.
    - - curtain call
        
        is needed for audience to feel satisfied with their participation
      - talk about the play