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Drama Literacy Test: need to know what these words mean.
1)Commedia dell’arte-an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theatres in the 16th–18th centuries, based on stock characters. Actors adapted their comic dialogue and action according to a few basic plots (commonly love intrigues) and to topical issues.
2)Grumalot-Grumalot is an imitation of language used in satirical theatre, an ad hoc gibberish that uses prosody along with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements to convey emotional and other meaning, and used in association with mime and mimicry.
3)Physicalisation-1. To express with the body: physicalize one's emotions. 2. To describe or interpret in physical terms: "a writer who physicalizes everything he feels."
4)Slap stick-An actual "slap stick" is a wooden paddle which was once used to make a smacking noise on stage. While it's noisy, it doesn't hurt to be hit with a slapstick, so actors could hit each other with slapsticks during plays, fall down, and get a laugh from the audience. It was one of the earliest known special effects.
5)Stock character, a character in a drama or fiction that represents a type and that is recognizable as belonging to a certain genre. Most of the characters in the commedia dell’arte, such as Columbine and Harlequin , are stock characters.
6)Non-verbal communication-he Non-Verbal Communication is the process of conveying meaning without the use of words either written or spoken.