CSET Multiple Subjects Subtest III Visual and Performing Arts - Drama (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions & Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct
Question:
Dramatic criticism
Answer:
-The work of a drama critic
-It consists of commentary on a play or script intended to enrich the experience of seeing the play or reading the script by others
-Dramatic criticism can appear in written form in periodicals, as media presentations, or in public talks
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Question:
Dramatic question
Answer:
-The first and most important element in rising action
-As soon as conflict has been established, the next question must be, "How will this turn out?"
-The dramatic question then raises the issue of which the conflicting parties will prevail and, in doing so, begins to develop suspense
Question:
Environmental staging
Answer:
-The form of physical relationship between audience and performers in which there is little or no clear definition between the space dedicated to each
-The conventions of environmental staging dictate that audience and performers use the same space during the course of the experience
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Question:
Exposition
Answer:
-The playwriting device of providing information to the audience
-Retrospective exposition usually occurs early in the action and gives the audience important information about what has occurred before the play begins; current exposition provides information about events offstage happening during the play
Question:
Flashback
Answer:
-A manipulation of time in the plot in which a scene from earlier in the story is shown after those that occur later
-Rather rare in traditional playwriting, flashbacks are common in films
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