Study Guide for SPCOM 380 Final

Ch. 8

• Types of Words
• New Ideas/Old Ideas
• Assertion/Implication
• Repetition for Emphasis
• Contrasts, Comparisons, Parallels, Words in Balance
• Causal and Conditional Relationships
• Climax
• Structural Emphasis

Ch. 9

• Rate, Duration, Pause, Rhythm
• Written Punctuation vs. Oral Punctuation
• Emphasis by Pausing

Ch. 10

• Abdominal Control of Exhalation
• Projecting
• Emphasis

Ch. 11

• Habitual Pitch
• Optimum Pitch
• Levels of Pitch
• Pitch and Persona

Ch. 12

• Vocal Resonance
• Breathy Quality
• Throaty Quality
• Hollow Quality
• Nasal Quality
• Denasal Quality
• Oral Quality
• Falsetto
• Tremulus

Ch. 13

• Distinguishing "Time" feature of narrative
• Three ways to classify point of view: attitude, scope, & person
• Commentary
• Summary
• Dialogue
• Tag Lines
• Direct Discourse
• Indirect Discourse
• Soliloquy
• Description

Lecture - Performance of Drama

• setting: how handled for drama?
• physical reaction to previous speaker
• focus - illusion of seeing
• timing - illusion of thought through variety
• placement of characters - how widely separated?

Lecture - Performance of Narrative

• Point of View
• Key Role of Narrator as Storyteller
• Episodic Structure
• Characters
• Descriptive Details

Ch. 14

• Blank Verse
• Free Verse
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Apostrophe
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Metonymy
• Synecdoche
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Ch. 15

• Major ways of "Studying the Play"
• What to do with stage directions--"Exit, stage left"
• How characters interact
• Keeping it moving

Ch. 16

• Readers Theatre vs. Chamber Theatre
• Choral Reading
• Use of Script in Readers Theatre vs. Chamber Theatre