A play can be a ritual, but not all rituals can be a play. What distinguishes theatre from ritual?

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Theatre has an actor who portrays a character. A priest, on the other hand, may be performing a theatrical and dramatic ritual but is not portraying someone else. Theatre is artificial. Also, theatre usually has a story with conflict, which is the key to all drama. Many religious rituals have a prescribed order of events, but they do not usually act out a story that includes scripted conflict.

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The process through which people select, organize, and interpret what they see, hear, touch, smell, and taste to give meaning and order to the world around them is called _______. This process plays a role in decoding communication.

a. perception b. filtering c. transmission d. communication

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