Chapter 4 Quiz

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A character who pursues a goal and is the central figure of a story but has a dark and hostile nature is called an antagonist.
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False
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A movie's ___________ consists of the specific actions and events that filmmakers select and the order in which they arrange those events.
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Plot
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Omniscient narration offers __________ access to the narrative of a film.
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Unrestricted
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Screen duration is the amount of time a shot is onscreen.
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False
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The amount of time that the implied story takes to occur is called the
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Story duration
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The elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicitly presents is called the
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Plot duration
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The inciting incident occurs when the protagonist faces their greatest obstacle.
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False
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The total world of a film's ____________ is called its ____________.
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Story; diegesis
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This clip from Death to the Tinman provides an example of a ___________ narrator.
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Third-person
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Unlike _________ order, which flows chronologically, ________ order can be manipulated so that events are presented nonchronologically.
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Story; plot
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Watch this clip from Bartholomew's Song and assess the validity of the following statement: The story duration of this scene is approximately 15 seconds.
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False
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What are the three types of duration identified by this chapter?
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screen duration; plot duration; story duration
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What is a movie's narrative?
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the telling of a movie's story
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Which of the following is NOT an example of a nondiegetic element?
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Dialogue
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Which of the following statements about round characters is NOT true?
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Round characters generally exhibit predictable behavior.