Central Analytical Categories: Dramatic Texts

The facial expressions of a character are considered part of the secondary text?

• True

• False

What´s a soliloquy?

• character speaks alone in the explicit presence of others

• character is alone on stage while speaking

• characters exchange opinions etc. in succession

• character addresses audience with speech in absence of others

Discrepant awareness: characters and audience are provided with identical information-?

• true

• false

What is character configuration?

• a synonym for "dramatis personae"

• the characters´ relationships

• way characters enter/exit stage: When, how, with whom, in which order...

• the lines characters utter

What´s word scenery?

• an objective means of representing of place in theatre

• attempt to engage audience´s imagination by description

• the props used on stage

The prologue to “Romeo and Juliet” in Act I can be considered an exposition-?

• true

• false

   In which ways does explicit figural characterisation happen?

• Direct comments about oneself (auto-characterisation)

• External appearance (e.g. statue or vocal quality)

• Through body language

• Direct comments by others (altero-characterisation)