Communication Studies 3260

Group Interpretation of Literature

Review for Final Exam

Terms to Know

Script rehearsal

Analysis rehearsal

Blocking rehearsal

Run-through rehearsal

Technical rehearsal

Dress rehearsal

Strike

Catalyzing Object

Improvisation

Compiled Script

Variety

Transition

Unity

Rhapsode

Dithyramb

Trope

Chambers of Rhetoric

Anna Cora Mowatt

Don Juan in Hell

Charles Laughton

Mark Twain

Kabuki

Free Readers Theatre

Conventional Readers Theatre

Chamber Theatre

Be Able to List

Six types of rehearsal

Three elements of a compiled script

Four types of transition techniques

Three early forms of Readers Theatre

Four vocal Warm-up activities

Four physical Warm-up activities

Be Able to Identify  

Be able to match selected characteristics to each form of Readers Theatre (from the PowerPoint presentation).

Be Able to Do the Following

Summarize the Plot of a text

Create a creative narrative identity for a production

Describe the Physical Setting

Find a Central Idea for a text

Create a Catalyzing Object

Describe Prior Circumstances

Identify forces in Conflict

Describe the narrator's attitude toward the audience and the characters.  Be able to describe what staging techniques you might use to make this stance clear to the audience