07:965:212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Easy Cheese, Classical Unities
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Diction is the meaning of the play, sometimes called the message or the idea. Theater can happen anywhere as long as the audience and the performers are informed about where the event is going to happen. The curtain call, the 4th wall, and asides are all examples of understood conventions. Aristotle used the word __ to refer to anything the audience sees. spectacle. The vocabulary that is used in the formation of a play and the order in which the vocabulary is organized is what aristotle referred to as . If a play has one simple plot with a beginning, middle, and end and unfolds in chronological order, it adheres to the . A play that happens in one passage of consecutive time, adheres to the . A play that takes place in one single location adheres to the .