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Shakespearean Drama Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is a character foil?
2. What is a synopsis?
3. A character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work.
4. An occurrence in which the audience knows more about what is happening than the important character
5. What is a theme?
6. What act does the climax occur?
7. Serious plays presenting the downfall of heroes, often ending in catastrophe
8. Someone who paid a penny to stand on the ground to watch a play
9. What is an archetype?
10. Character that has one/two personality traits
11. A weakness within the main character which causes his downfall
12. Antony speaks to the crowd ..... "Friends, Romans, countrymen, give me your attention. I have come here to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do is remembered after their deaths, but the good is often buried with them ..... "
13. A force against the protagonist that can be another character, a group of characters, or something nonhuman, such as nature or society.
14. The speech of the characters in a play often in conversation
15. Is the protagonist, or central character, and usually fails or dies because of a character flaw or cruel twist of fate.
16. Shakespearean drama genre that is characterized by:Comedic languagePlot twistsMistaken identityWeddings or ReunionsLove obstacles
17. What is ambition?
18. A single character gives a speech meant for the audience (characters on stage cannot "hear" this speech, as it provides inner thoughts and motivations to the audience)
19. What conflict does Claudius suggest he feels in lines 1-14 of the excerpt from Hamlet? Write the letter of one statement below the emotion it aligns to. Each emotion has one correct answer.
20. A comment or line spoken softly under his breath (the stage may be full of actors)
21. The directions for movements which include descriptions, setting, and actions
22. Hurricane Katrina reached land on the Gulf Coast, and houses in Louisiana and Mississippi were flooded and destroyed.
23. Which of the following is NOT a TECHNICAL ELEMENT of drama?
24. What is comic relief?
25. Which of the following PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS best helps the audience to see the character's reviving of hope?
26. Shakespearean drama genre that is characterized by:Propaganda for current events (in Shakespeare's time)Real figure from English or ancient (Greek & Roman) historyEmbellishment (adding extra detail) of plot and characters
27. Character created to help the qualities/personality of another character shine
28. Conflict with an outside force-can be another character, nature, technology, supernatural, etc.
29. Psychological or mental conflict ; man vs. self
30. A play where the main character comes to an unhappy end.
31. Definition:A figure of speech that combines conflicting (opposite) terms to create something new.
32. Recurring character in drama (like archetypes)hero, villian, damsel in distress, devil figure, etc.
33. What is unique about Act V of a Shakespearean drama?
34. Which of the following is NOT a PERFORMANCE ELEMENT of a drama?
35. Brutus ..... What a stupid man he's become! He was so sharp when he was in school.Cassius ..... He's still sharp when it comes to carrying out a bold or noble enterprise .....
36. A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character, highlighting both characters' traits.
37. A disastrous event that ruins the hero's life and often leads to the hero's death
38. A humorous scene, incident, or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity in the play
39. What is contained in Act I of a Shakespearean drama?
40. Bianca was torn on whether she should stay at the party. She saw people doing drugs, and she did not feel safe any longer.
41. A single character gives a speech to other characters in a drama
42. What is catharsis?
43. What is a Shakespearean Tragedy?
44. What is a monologue?
45. Which act of a Shakespearean drama would include the denouement/resolution?
46. Language used in 1611 A.D. or about the time of Shakespeare.
47. When the audience knows more than the characters which helps build suspense.
48. The use of hints or clues about what will happen later
49. Someone who is nobly born and has great influence in his or her society, often the main character
50. Which TECHNICAL ELEMENT best helps to make the following scene successful in establishing the setting (time period) and the class structure?
51. A tragic flaw is .....
52. Iambic Pentameter
53. Characters who are in conflict with the hero
54. A form of poetry that most resembles natural speech.
55. Conversation between characters in a drama
56. In line 66, Claudius says to Hamlet:How is it that the clouds still hang on you? What is the effect of using this metaphor?
57. Read line 12 of the excerpt. With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, Which statement best explains the meaning of this paradoxical expression?
58. A type of meter that has five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable.
59. A series of actions meant to be performed on a stage by live actors:another word for a play
60. A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood and serves to heighten the seriousness of the main action by contrast.
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