ch 7 assessment

the main representative character in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House who to this day serves as a symbol of the modern woman is

Nora Helmer.

Minor characters are

all of these answers are correct

An intellectual or artistic movement that breaks with tradition and therefore seems ahead of its time is called ________; literally, it means "advance guard in a military formation."

avant-garde

Common structure in musical theatre requires that every song have a segment that involves the chorus.

false

Minor characters in a play are always written as basic stock characters.

false

A repetition or reenactment of a proceeding or a transaction which has acquired special meaning is called a

ritual

A ________ reinforces or runs parallel to the major plot in an episodic play.

subplot

A tableaux structure begins with characters arranged in a visual stage picture and the action, frequently nonverbal, proceeds from that tableaux until the end of the scene.

true

Narrators in the most traditional sense remain outside the action of the play and typically comment on the action communicating directly with the audience.

true

Patterns as structure exist not only in dance but also in some plays, where the characters' movement and circumstances can be repetitive, as in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

true