IT - Chapter 6/7 Review

What type of comedy is based on intellectual humor revealed through witty dialogue?

• high comedy
• low  comedy
• burlesque
• caricature

Performance art is sometimes considered a form of __________.

• melodrama
• monodrama
• high comedy
• epic theater

Another name for representational theater is __________.

• illusion of the first time
• theater of involvement
• theatricalism
• fourth-wall theater

A playwright of tragedy uses _______ to evoke the audience's feelings of pity and compassion for the tragic hero.

• incongruity

• pathos

• expressionism

• melodrama

In which type of comedy might you find chase scenes, screen scenes, asides?

• farce

• satire

• sentimental comedy

• caricature

In the play Othello, Othello's destructive jealousy is a keen example of __________.

• incongruity

• allegory

• hamartia

• hubris

Which playwright is often considered the father of realism as well as of the modern drama?

• Henrik Ibsen

• Tom Stoppard

• Molière

• Bertolt Brecht

After the downfall of a tragic character, the audience feels a sense of release, or __________.

• pathos

• hubris

• hamartia

• catharsis

Which of the following is NOT a common cause of laughter?

• relief

• ambiguity

• allegory

• anticipation

The protagonist in a tragedy is a significant person who is average or _____?

• worse

• mediocre

• better

• horrible