1. What is the one un-breakable rule of dramatic writing?(Limit your answer to three words.)
2. When adapting a novel to the screen, what does the screenwriter owe the original material? (Limit your answer to one word.)
Where do you need conflict in a screenplay? (Limit your answer to one word.)
Aristotle argues that the dramatist should choose "...a plausible impossibility over an implausible possibility...." What does he mean? Please identify a film you've seen and provide an example of a plausible impossibility and, from another film, an example of an implausible possibility.
Aristotle writes "...we delight in contemplating the most exact likenesses of things which are in themselves painful to see...." What does he mean?
How many basic components are there in Aristotelian story structure? List them.
7. What is the difference between story and theme?
8. According to Aristotle, what is more important: story or character?