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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which description most accurately identifies tragedy as a dramatic genre?
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Explanation:
• Tragedy presents serious conflict and commonly moves toward suffering, irreversible loss or catastrophe.
• Its protagonist's choices are often shaped by social, political, familial or psychological pressures.
• Comedy generally moves toward reintegration or reconciliation, while masque emphasises courtly spectacle.
• Closet drama is defined by its intended mode of reading rather than by a tragic ending.
• Its protagonist's choices are often shaped by social, political, familial or psychological pressures.
• Comedy generally moves toward reintegration or reconciliation, while masque emphasises courtly spectacle.
• Closet drama is defined by its intended mode of reading rather than by a tragic ending.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which feature is most commonly associated with comedy?
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Explanation:
• Comedy often begins with conflict, misunderstanding, disguise or blocked desire.
• Recognition, marriage, reunion or restored community commonly shapes its resolution.
• Comedy may contain serious social criticism and does not require supernatural machinery.
• A happy ending is not always uncomplicated, but reintegration is a recurring generic tendency.
• Recognition, marriage, reunion or restored community commonly shapes its resolution.
• Comedy may contain serious social criticism and does not require supernatural machinery.
• A happy ending is not always uncomplicated, but reintegration is a recurring generic tendency.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Tragicomedy is best defined as a form that
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Explanation:
• Tragicomedy combines grave threats, suffering or apparent death with comic, romantic or restorative movement.
• The form frequently brings characters close to catastrophe before enabling reunion or survival.
• Shakespeare's late romances are often discussed in relation to tragicomic structure.
• Tragicomedy is not merely the mechanical joining of two unrelated genres.
• The form frequently brings characters close to catastrophe before enabling reunion or survival.
• Shakespeare's late romances are often discussed in relation to tragicomic structure.
• Tragicomedy is not merely the mechanical joining of two unrelated genres.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which combination of features most clearly identifies farce?
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Explanation:
• Farce depends on exaggerated situations, quick entrances, concealment, confusion and physical comedy.
• Its plots often include mistaken identities, overheard conversations and escalating deception.
• Psychological realism is usually less important than speed and theatrical effect.
• The other options describe forms such as tragedy, history play or symbolic drama.
• Its plots often include mistaken identities, overheard conversations and escalating deception.
• Psychological realism is usually less important than speed and theatrical effect.
• The other options describe forms such as tragedy, history play or symbolic drama.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
A masque in early modern English theatre was primarily
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Explanation:
• The masque was an elite court entertainment featuring music, dance, elaborate costume, scenery and allegorical design.
• Members of the court could participate alongside professional performers.
• Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones became especially important to the literary and visual development of the form.
• Its emphasis on spectacle distinguishes it from realistic domestic drama.
• Members of the court could participate alongside professional performers.
• Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones became especially important to the literary and visual development of the form.
• Its emphasis on spectacle distinguishes it from realistic domestic drama.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which description best defines closet drama?
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Explanation:
• Closet drama is composed mainly for reading rather than immediate theatrical production.
• Such works may contain scenes, speeches or settings difficult to realise onstage.
• The form still uses dramatic dialogue and structure even when performance is not its primary destination.
• The term does not refer simply to a small venue or secret performance.
• Such works may contain scenes, speeches or settings difficult to realise onstage.
• The form still uses dramatic dialogue and structure even when performance is not its primary destination.
• The term does not refer simply to a small venue or secret performance.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which statement most accurately characterises a problem play?
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Explanation:
• A problem play places a controversial moral, social or political issue at the centre of dramatic conflict.
• Its conclusion may remain ethically uneasy even when the formal plot appears resolved.
• Measure for Measure and several modern realist plays are frequently discussed through this category.
• The term refers to thematic and generic difficulty, not to mathematical problems or textual corruption.
• Its conclusion may remain ethically uneasy even when the formal plot appears resolved.
• Measure for Measure and several modern realist plays are frequently discussed through this category.
• The term refers to thematic and generic difficulty, not to mathematical problems or textual corruption.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Performance studies is best understood as
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Explanation:
• Performance studies examines embodied acts across theatre, ritual, public ceremony, media and everyday behaviour.
• It draws on theatre studies, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and related fields.
• The field considers how identity, power and social meaning are produced through performance.
• It therefore extends beyond the literary study of dramatic scripts.
• It draws on theatre studies, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and related fields.
• The field considers how identity, power and social meaning are produced through performance.
• It therefore extends beyond the literary study of dramatic scripts.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which scholar-practitioner is especially associated with the development of performance studies and the concept of restored behaviour?
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Explanation:
• Richard Schechner is a major figure in the development of performance studies.
• His concept of restored behaviour describes repeatable actions that can be rehearsed, rearranged and performed in new contexts.
• Bradley is associated with Shakespearean tragedy, while Brooks and Frye are literary critics.
• Schechner's work connects theatre with ritual, anthropology and social performance.
• His concept of restored behaviour describes repeatable actions that can be rehearsed, rearranged and performed in new contexts.
• Bradley is associated with Shakespearean tragedy, while Brooks and Frye are literary critics.
• Schechner's work connects theatre with ritual, anthropology and social performance.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which statement best describes dramatic adaptation?
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Explanation:
• Adaptation transforms an existing work for a new medium, audience, culture or historical context.
• It may alter plot, character, language, setting or perspective while maintaining a recognisable relation to the source.
• Adaptations can criticise, revise or expand the ideological assumptions of earlier texts.
• Fidelity is only one possible criterion and not the sole measure of artistic value.
• It may alter plot, character, language, setting or perspective while maintaining a recognisable relation to the source.
• Adaptations can criticise, revise or expand the ideological assumptions of earlier texts.
• Fidelity is only one possible criterion and not the sole measure of artistic value.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
The term mise-en-scène refers most directly to
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Explanation:
• Mise-en-scène includes setting, properties, costume, lighting, spatial composition and the placement and movement of actors.
• It shapes what spectators see and how visual relationships communicate meaning.
• Directors and designers use mise-en-scène to establish atmosphere, hierarchy, focus and interpretation.
• The term does not refer to copyright, composition history or private preparation alone.
• It shapes what spectators see and how visual relationships communicate meaning.
• Directors and designers use mise-en-scène to establish atmosphere, hierarchy, focus and interpretation.
• The term does not refer to copyright, composition history or private preparation alone.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What is the director's principal interpretive function in a theatrical production?
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Explanation:
• The director develops an overall interpretation and coordinates the work of actors and designers.
• Decisions about pace, blocking, visual emphasis, tone and relationships shape the audience's experience.
• The director does not perform every role or merely preserve the script mechanically.
• Directing turns the written text into a specific event in time and space.
• Decisions about pace, blocking, visual emphasis, tone and relationships shape the audience's experience.
• The director does not perform every role or merely preserve the script mechanically.
• Directing turns the written text into a specific event in time and space.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which statement best describes the actor's contribution to dramatic meaning?
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Explanation:
• Actors produce meaning through vocal delivery, posture, gesture, facial expression, movement and timing.
• The same scripted line can communicate different motives depending on performance choices.
• Interaction among actors also creates rhythm, tension and status relations.
• Performance therefore interprets rather than merely repeats the dramatic text.
• The same scripted line can communicate different motives depending on performance choices.
• Interaction among actors also creates rhythm, tension and status relations.
• Performance therefore interprets rather than merely repeats the dramatic text.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which situation most clearly demonstrates the audience's active role in performance?
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Explanation:
• Audience responses such as laughter, silence, discomfort and applause affect the rhythm and atmosphere of live performance.
• Spectators interpret events through cultural knowledge, historical context and personal experience.
• Different audiences may therefore produce different meanings from the same production.
• Theatre is a shared event rather than a one-way transmission from script to passive viewer.
• Spectators interpret events through cultural knowledge, historical context and personal experience.
• Different audiences may therefore produce different meanings from the same production.
• Theatre is a shared event rather than a one-way transmission from script to passive viewer.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which function is most directly associated with theatrical costume?
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Explanation:
• Costume can signal historical period, class, profession, gender presentation, cultural affiliation and psychological change.
• Disguise plots depend heavily on the audience's interpretation of clothing.
• Costume also contributes colour, texture and movement to the visual composition.
• It supports acting and interpretation rather than replacing them.
• Disguise plots depend heavily on the audience's interpretation of clothing.
• Costume also contributes colour, texture and movement to the visual composition.
• It supports acting and interpretation rather than replacing them.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which use of stage lighting most directly guides audience attention?
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Explanation:
• Focused lighting can direct spectators toward a particular actor, object or region of the stage.
• Changes in intensity, angle and visibility can also suggest time, mood, danger or psychological isolation.
• Lighting is therefore both practical and interpretive.
• Uniform illumination may sometimes be chosen deliberately, but it does not guide focus as directly.
• Changes in intensity, angle and visibility can also suggest time, mood, danger or psychological isolation.
• Lighting is therefore both practical and interpretive.
• Uniform illumination may sometimes be chosen deliberately, but it does not guide focus as directly.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about stage directions.
Statement I: Stage directions may indicate movement, gesture, setting, sound or tone.
Statement II: Stage directions always determine one compulsory performance interpretation.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: Stage directions may indicate movement, gesture, setting, sound or tone.
Statement II: Stage directions always determine one compulsory performance interpretation.
Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because stage directions provide information about action, environment, sound, entrances and physical behaviour.
• Statement II is incorrect because directors and actors may interpret directions differently according to period, venue and concept.
• Some directions are authorial, while others may derive from editors or performance traditions.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because directors and actors may interpret directions differently according to period, venue and concept.
• Some directions are authorial, while others may derive from editors or performance traditions.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Subtext in drama refers to
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Explanation:
• Subtext is the underlying meaning communicated beneath or against the literal words.
• Pauses, gesture, tone and context may reveal desire, hostility or fear that a character does not state openly.
• Chekhov and Pinter are especially associated with dramatic writing rich in subtext.
• The concept is crucial to both acting and critical interpretation.
• Pauses, gesture, tone and context may reveal desire, hostility or fear that a character does not state openly.
• Chekhov and Pinter are especially associated with dramatic writing rich in subtext.
• The concept is crucial to both acting and critical interpretation.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Dramatic irony occurs when
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Explanation:
• Dramatic irony depends on a gap between audience knowledge and character knowledge.
• A character's confident words may acquire a different meaning because spectators know more about the situation.
• The device creates suspense, humour, pity or fear depending on genre and context.
• It is central to works involving disguise, prophecy, deception and hidden identity.
• A character's confident words may acquire a different meaning because spectators know more about the situation.
• The device creates suspense, humour, pity or fear depending on genre and context.
• It is central to works involving disguise, prophecy, deception and hidden identity.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which interpretive approach is most appropriate when a character's polite words conflict with threatening gestures?
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Explanation:
• Dramatic meaning emerges from the interaction of words, bodily behaviour and situation.
• Threatening gestures may reveal hostility concealed beneath polite language.
• This tension creates subtext and may produce irony or menace.
• Critical interpretation of drama must therefore consider performance signs as well as verbal content.
• Threatening gestures may reveal hostility concealed beneath polite language.
• This tension creates subtext and may produce irony or menace.
• Critical interpretation of drama must therefore consider performance signs as well as verbal content.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Assertion: Mise-en-scène can produce a political interpretation even when the dialogue remains unchanged.
Reason: Spatial hierarchy, costume, lighting and actor placement can make relations of power visible.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Spatial hierarchy, costume, lighting and actor placement can make relations of power visible.
Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because visual staging can alter how spectators understand authority, exclusion and conflict.
• The Reason is correct because position, distance, height, costume and illumination communicate status and control.
• A director can therefore foreground class, gender or political domination without rewriting the dialogue.
• The Reason directly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because position, distance, height, costume and illumination communicate status and control.
• A director can therefore foreground class, gender or political domination without rewriting the dialogue.
• The Reason directly explains the Assertion.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which of the following statements about adaptation are correct?
1. An adaptation may shift a story to a different historical period.
2. An adaptation may change the cultural perspective of the source.
3. An adaptation must retain every character and scene.
4. An adaptation may move a work from page to stage or screen.
1. An adaptation may shift a story to a different historical period.
2. An adaptation may change the cultural perspective of the source.
3. An adaptation must retain every character and scene.
4. An adaptation may move a work from page to stage or screen.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because adaptation may relocate the action historically or geographically.
• Statement 2 is correct because a new cultural perspective can revise the source's assumptions.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because characters and scenes may be omitted, combined or transformed.
• Statement 4 is correct because adaptation frequently involves a change of medium.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because a new cultural perspective can revise the source's assumptions.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because characters and scenes may be omitted, combined or transformed.
• Statement 4 is correct because adaptation frequently involves a change of medium.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Farce
2. Masque
3. Closet drama
4. Problem play
List II
P. Social or ethical issue with an uneasy resolution
Q. Dramatic work intended primarily for reading
R. Improbable action and physical comedy
S. Courtly spectacle using music, dance and allegory
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Farce
2. Masque
3. Closet drama
4. Problem play
List II
P. Social or ethical issue with an uneasy resolution
Q. Dramatic work intended primarily for reading
R. Improbable action and physical comedy
S. Courtly spectacle using music, dance and allegory
Choose the correct code.
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Explanation:
• Farce matches R because it uses improbable action, rapid confusion and physical comedy.
• Masque matches S because it is a courtly form combining music, dance, spectacle and allegory.
• Closet drama matches Q because it is written primarily for reading.
• Problem play matches P because it addresses difficult social or ethical issues without a fully comfortable resolution.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-S, 3-Q, 4-P.
• Masque matches S because it is a courtly form combining music, dance, spectacle and allegory.
• Closet drama matches Q because it is written primarily for reading.
• Problem play matches P because it addresses difficult social or ethical issues without a fully comfortable resolution.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-S, 3-Q, 4-P.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Arrange the following stages of developing a theatrical production in the most logical sequence.
1. Public performance before an audience
2. Rehearsal and blocking with actors
3. Initial interpretation of the dramatic text
4. Integration of costume, lighting, sound and scenic design
1. Public performance before an audience
2. Rehearsal and blocking with actors
3. Initial interpretation of the dramatic text
4. Integration of costume, lighting, sound and scenic design
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Explanation:
• The production team first develops an interpretation of the dramatic text.
• Actors then explore character, movement and blocking through rehearsal.
• Design elements are integrated and refined in relation to the rehearsed performance.
• The process culminates in the public performance before an audience.
• The most logical sequence is 3, 2, 4, 1.
• Actors then explore character, movement and blocking through rehearsal.
• Design elements are integrated and refined in relation to the rehearsed performance.
• The process culminates in the public performance before an audience.
• The most logical sequence is 3, 2, 4, 1.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which combination correctly identifies principles of critical dramatic interpretation?
1. Dialogue should be considered together with action and stage directions.
2. Genre influences audience expectations and meaning.
3. Performance choices may alter the emphasis of a written scene.
4. Historical and cultural context can shape interpretation.
1. Dialogue should be considered together with action and stage directions.
2. Genre influences audience expectations and meaning.
3. Performance choices may alter the emphasis of a written scene.
4. Historical and cultural context can shape interpretation.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because drama communicates through speech, movement, silence and visual signs.
• Statement 2 is correct because tragedy, comedy, farce and other genres create different expectations.
• Statement 3 is correct because acting and directing choices can foreground different motives and conflicts.
• Statement 4 is correct because performance and interpretation are shaped by historical and cultural conditions.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because tragedy, comedy, farce and other genres create different expectations.
• Statement 3 is correct because acting and directing choices can foreground different motives and conflicts.
• Statement 4 is correct because performance and interpretation are shaped by historical and cultural conditions.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. A serious dramatic action involving suffering, conflict and significant loss సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Movement from confusion or conflict toward recognition and social reconciliation సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. mixes serious danger with comic or restorative elements and avoids complete catastrophe సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Rapid action, improbable situations, physical humour and mistaken identity సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. a courtly entertainment combining music, dance, costume, spectacle and allegory సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. A dramatic work written primarily to be read rather than staged సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. It examines a difficult social or ethical issue without providing an entirely comfortable resolution. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. an interdisciplinary field examining embodied performance in theatre, ritual, everyday life and culture సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Richard Schechner సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. It reinterprets a source by changing medium, context, structure, language or cultural emphasis. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. the organisation of visible and spatial elements within a performance సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. To coordinate acting, space, rhythm and design into a coherent performance సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. The actor embodies the role through voice, movement, gesture, timing and interaction. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. Laughter, silence, attention and cultural expectations influence how the event is experienced. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. Indicating period, status, occupation, identity or transformation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Isolating a performer or stage area through a focused change in brightness సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. the unspoken motives, emotions or tensions beneath the literal dialogue సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. the audience understands information or implications that one or more characters do not సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Read dialogue, gesture and context together to identify the subtext. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. 1-R, 2-S, 3-Q, 4-P సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. 3, 2, 4, 1 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: A.