THEA 2020 Midterm

Sensory Imagery: Visual

Images that draw upon the sense of sight

Sensory Imagery: Auditory

Images that call upon the sense of hearing

Sensory Imagery: Olfactory

Images that call upon the sense of smell

Sensory Imagery: Gustatory

Images that call upon the sense of taste

Sensory Imagery: Tactile

Images that call upon the sense of touch

Sensory Imagery: Kinesthetic

images that draw upon muscular involvement, awareness of body position, and tension (EX: a pitcher throwing a ball)

Sensory Imagery: Kinetic

images that draw upon physical movement (EX: the baseball moving through the air toward the batter)

Sensory Imagery: Thermal

images that call upon the sense of what is hot and what is cold

Psychological Time (where time is felt or located): Epichronic or Mythic Time

We can live above time. Signals the presence of holiness, rite, and ritual. A symbolic time: spring as birth, winter as death.

Psychological Time (where time is felt or located): Anachronic or Behind Time

We can live in the past and past memories

Psychological Time (where time is felt or located): Synchronic or Present Time

We can live in the present

Psychological Time (where time is felt or located): Metachronic or Ahead of Time

We can live for the future

Psychological Time (where time is felt or located): Catachronic or Below Time

Sense of being weighed by time (EX: 9/11, trying to sleep when not tired)

Event Time

The time is takes for the EVENTS of the narrative to occur. ACTUAL TIME

Story Time

the time it takes for the speaker to communicate the narrative

Description Time

Type of story time; The time it takes for the speaker to communicate is LONGER than the time it takes for the events in the narrative to occur (EX: describing a kiss)

Summary Time

Type of story time; the time it takes for the speaker to communicate is SHORTER than the time is takes for the events in the narrative to occur (EX: growing up)

Scene Time

The time it takes for the speaker to communicate is THE SAME as the time is takes for the events in the narrative to occur

Rhythmic Time

Musical; the manner in which life is performed and sensed. The flow and speed in which a poem is performed in real time. Look for repetition.

Silential Time

Important to the evocation of meaning and performance of literature. Silence speaks volumes.

Characterological Silence

character’s inability to utter what they feel and think. Gestures and facial expression and bodily deportment may “speak” for the character

Situational Silence

Silence falls upon individuals because of an event; awkward silence

Structural Silence

Two ways structural silence appears in literature: through punctuation and arrangements of words on a page

Open focus

Occurs when the performer addresses the audience directly by looking into their faces and speaking to them. Used in public speaking.

Closed focus

This occurs when the performer places the person whom they are addressing on the stage with him or her and does not acknowledge the presence of the audience. Used in theatre performance.

Inner-Closed Focus

This occurs when the performer is speaking to themselves

Semi-closed focus

This occurs when the performer chooses to address an absent other by looking beyond the heads of the audience

Poetic Impulse: Indirection

for the expression to move us in a poetic way, the expression needs to make meaning through indirect means (simile, metaphor, gesture, allusion, behavior, symbols)

Poetic Impulse: Primitiveness

for the expression to move us in a poetic way, it needs to make meaning in a fresh or novel way. Original.

Poetic Impulse: Compression

for the expression to move us in a poetic way, it needs to express its meaning concisely.

Poetic Impulse: Manipulation of Time

For the expression to move us in a poetic way, our experience of time is in some way altered. Can be fast or slow.

Emotional Press: Expression

this is where the speaker displays openness- a sense of freedom and release

Emotional Press: Impression

The speaker takes care to place an image to be remembered in the mind of the listener (EX: he is a worm).

Emotional Press: Depression

The speaker is responding vocally or physically to a sense of being “crowded in.” Reveals a sense of emptiness and being weighed down.

Emotional Press: Compression

The speaker interjects an image that is a complete distillation of his/her experience. It is concise, but implies a meaning that evokes more than its utterance. Often tied to gesture- shrug, nod, glance.

Emotional Press: Suppression

The speaker knows they must not speak. There is something that cannot be said. Often characterized by halting speech, a fear of self-disclosure, or a choice to lie or distort the truth.

Emotional Press: Repression

This is where the speaker is unable to express because they don’t know how to say what is going on to them. Can’t put into words what they feel.

Emotional Press: Oppression

The speaker does not express because of the presence or power of an opposing force. The force may be literal or imagined. The speaker feels their power is less.

Modes of Address: Lyric

There is one speaker, the persona is undefined. Little information about speaker. Typically has presence of “I”

Modes of Address: Dramatic

What we might assume to be the poet’s voice is submerged beneath a character who speaks. The speaker is defined. Character vs. Persona. Present tense, and events are described like they are happening in the moment of articulation.

Modes of Address: Epic

Discourse moves back and forth between narrator and characters. There is the presence of a narrator telling about something that already happened in the there and then, then time shifts and the characters start speaking in the moment that was just described by the narrator.

Certainties

Aspects of a text that undoubtedly exist. They are not implied, they are.

Probabilities

Characteristics that are IMPLIED, but not stated. Supported by evidence inferred from the text, it is a weighed likelihood. May be actualized in performance.

Possibilities

Can be neither proved or disproved absolutely. Can be moderate probability to slight chance.

Claims of Fact

a statement about how things were in the past, how they are in the present, or how they will be in the future. It CLAIMS to be a fact. It’s arguable because there is no way to prove it is true. “The Earth is round” is a proven fact. “In our right-handed world, left-handed people are discriminated against” is a fact claim because it is a statement about how things are.

Value Claims

arguable statements concerning the relative merits of something, which is measured subjectively. It’s arguable because people disagree on the CRITERIA used to evaluate something. EX: since it is inequitably administered, capital punishment is unjust.

Claim of Policy

a statement regarding the merits or one course or action as opposed to other courses of action. Claims that people must act. EX: Following the Canadian system, congress should form a system for public funding od religious schools for families that opt out of the public school system