ENGLISH 9 [LQUIZ]

• Crossfader: the lever on a lightning control console that simultaneously dims all the channels from one cut to the next
• Prompt Book: the book complied by the stage manager
• Jackknife Platform: a platform that pivots on one corner
• Valence: a small drapery that runs across the top of the grand drape and hides the hardware that suspends it
• Wing Space: the space on the stage that is not visible to the audience
• Hazer: a device that creates a thin mist of fog throughout the stage
• Green Room: a common area where performers wait until its time to go onstage
• House Right: the right side of the auditorium, from the audience POV
• Shotgun Mic: a microphone design to pick up sound only directly in front of it
• Stock Scenery: flats and platforms that are stored and used for many different productions
• Set Dressing: decorations that have no function on a set
• Callboard: the backstage bulletin board where announcements schedule and infos are posted
• Front-of-house: anything in the house, rather than onstage
• Woofer: a speaker element that reproduces the low-end frequences
• Floorplan: the diagran showing the placement of the scenery
• False Proscenium: a portal that gives the set its own picture frame
• Audience Blinders: a bank of small PAR cans all mounted in the same fixture
• Back Light: light coming from the upstage of an actor
• Personal Props: items that sre carried onstage by the actor
• Boom Stand: a microphone with horizontal attachment that reach over the keyboard
• Subwoofer: a speaker designed to play very low
• Douser: the control on a follow spot that fades out the light by slowly closing a set of doors
• Masking: the draperies or flats that hide backstage from the audience
• Casters: the wheels on a platform
• Plot: is a literary term used to describe the events
• 5 main elements of the plot

  • Exposition
  • Rising action
  • Climax
  • Falling action
  • Resolution
• Exposition: also know as the introduction
• Rising Action: is a series of relevant incident that create suspense, interest and tension
• Climax: reffered as the main point of the plot
• Falling Action: this is where complications of the story begin to resolve and this occurs right after the climax
• Resolution: also knowned as the conclusion
• Conclusion is also called as Denouement
• Characters: are the people presented in the play that are involved in the perusing plot
• Theme: develop from a playwright's personal values expressed through a play's plot and characters
• Playwrights Personak Values

  • Moral
  • Social
  • Political
• Setting: is an environment or surrounding in which an event takes place
• 3 major components of the setting

  • Social environment
  • Place
  • Time
• Dialogue: conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
• Descriptive Statements: describe facts, events, or observation w/o expressing any opinion or judgment
• Normative Statements: express opinions, values, or judgments about what ought to be