This provides background and information about location, backstory, characters, occasion, time period, and underlying themes of the play.

Scratching into paint while wet to reveal the surface underneath.

What does universal human import mean? Can you give an example? Here’s a hint, we are living it right now!! Which genre does it pertain to?

According to Aristotle, in order to arouse these feelings from the audience, a tragic protagonist can only be completely good or completely evil.

This Element is developed by the repetition of ideas, points of view, character, and dramatic action.

Horizontal lines are the most dynamic and exciting.

The point in the play where the levels of stress and tension begin to dissipate as conflicts begin to be resolved.

Define spatial arts and temporal arts. Give examples of each.

Unity of _________ refers to the idea that the entire action of the play should take place within one fictional 24-hour period.

Genre is less a limitation or an absolute of specific types of drama, but rather a simple way of looking at plays that is fluid and changing, offering endless variations and combinations of form.