1. Detemine the one un-breakable rule of dramatic writing?
2. When adapting novel to screen, what does screenwriter owe the original material?
Where do you need conflict in screenplay?
Aristotle argues that dramatist should choose "...a plausible impossibility over implausible possibility...." What does he mean? Recognize film you have seen and give the example of plausible impossibility and, from another film, an example of an implausible possibility.
Aristotle writes "...we delight in contemplating 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? Write them.
7. Write down the difference between story and theme?
8. According to Aristotle, what is more significant : story or character?