3rd quarter ENGLISH

• Flat characters - single, one-dimensional characters. represent a single dominant characteristic that remains unchanged throughout the story
• Rounded character - complex, multi-faceted characters who change over time as they experience events.
• dynamic characters - alters the course of events and responsible for conflict
• Static characters
• Spectacle - the visual elements of a play: sets, costumes, special events
• Convention - Techniques and methods used by playwrite and director to create desired styistic effect
• Genre - refers to the type of play, examples are : comedy, tragedy, mystery, and historical play
• Audience - group of people who watch the play
• Scenery - theatrical equipment such as curtains, backdrops, flats or platforms used in a dramatic production to communicate environment
• Costumes - clothing and accessories worn by actors to portray character and period
• Properties - are any article except costumes or scenery, used as a part of dramatic production; any moveable object that appears on stage
• Light - the intensity and color of lights help communicate environment mood or feeling
• Sound - the effects an audience hears during a performance to communicate character, context or environment
• Makeup - bodypaint used to transform an actor into a character
• Realism - is an accurate detailed, and life-like description in a play where things are presented as real as can be set in actual life
• Non-realism - is a method of presentation identified as something stylized imagination in projecting his ideas
• Musical play - form of dramatic production combining acting and singing
• Full length play - also called evening-length play because they are long enough to have their own evening
• ten minute play - typically takes place in one scene and runs no more than 10 minutes
• one act play - can run anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour or more
• Act - divisions and sections in aplay
• Blocking - the positions and mves of actors
• cast - the list of characters and names of the actors who play the character
• cue - the instruction of the stage manager to the technical department
• curtain call - this involves the actors bowing to the audience at the end of the play
• dialogue - the lines to be delivered of the characters of the play
• director - the person in charge of all areas in the production
• Downstage - front part of the stage, near the audience
• upstage - the back part of the stage, away from the audience
• props - obstacles or materials used in a play
• Stage direction - used by playwright regarding the different aspects of the play such as the setting, dialogues, and actions
• Stage manager - the person in charge of organizing the production and coordinates with different departments of the production
• Multimodality - defined as multimodal when it combines two or more semiotic system or communication modes such as linguistic, visual, aural, gestural, and spatial to create a meaning
• Linguistic - oral language, daily conversation, singing songs telling a story, reading
• Gestural - body movements, facial expressions, hand signals, dance, mime, sign language, etc.
• Spatial - arrangement of objects on stage, use of space, movement of actors, blocking, etc.
• Aural - sound effects, music, silence, noise, etc.
• Visual - pictures, drawings, paintings, photographs, videos, films, animations, posters, advertisements, logos, symbols, signs, maps, diagrams, charts, graphs, tables, illustrations, infographics, etc.
• Paper based multimodal text - picture books, illustrations, graphic novels and posters
• Live multimodal text - plays, live concerts, and live performances and live speeches