English 4 Unit 3
A poem that does not have a rhyming scheme and no particular beat is _____________ verse.
free
It was in the __________________ drama that revenge plays emerged.
Elizabethan
___________________ believed that writing drama was an art, not a craft and foreshadowed modern plays.
George Bernard Shaw
______________ dramas were mostly satires and tragicomedies.
Jacobean
LESSON 2
LESSON 2
Audiences enjoyed liturgical plays, spiritual dramas, and morality plays in _______________ dramas.
Middle Age
QUIZ 1
QUIZ 1
________________ dramas were heroic plays and comedies of manners.
Restoration
The events in a story comprise a fictional work's __________________.
plot
Classical, ____________, and realism poetry were changes in poetry forms.
romantic
________________ narrator makes guesses about the thoughts and feelings of characters ________________ narrator divulges information to the reader that characters do not know ________________ narrator, relates the thoughts of more than one character and is everywhere ________________ may be limited or omniscient view and may be subjective or objective ________________ a rarely used point of view in which the reader is addressed as "you" ________________ narrator is part of the story and describes the events and characters by not their thoughts ________________ narrator tells the main character's thoughts
1- third person objective 2- universal omiscient 3- third person omniscient 4- third person pov 5- second person pov 6- first person pov 7- third person limited
_____________ created strong characters whose unsettled souls placed them in dangerous spots.
Christopher Marlowe
____________ A comedy that traces what happens to a character whose humours are out of balance. ____________ A comedy that mocks or satirizes a social class' manners in a plot that involves a scandal. ____________ A spectacle that incorporates music and dancing, singing, and acting and fancy stage designs. ____________ Instructive dramas that dealt with people's conduct. ____________ A play whose focus was realism.
Comedy of Humors Comedy of Manners Masque Morality play Well-made play
The three type of plays are the ________________, the ______________________, and the _______________________.
Comedy, tragedy, melodrama
Visual or _________________-- poetry refers to poetry in which the ways the words are arranged is as important as the words themselves.
Concrete
In 1956, _____________________ dramas moved to new theaters and actors formed troupes.
Contemperary
The end is called __________ or ______________.
Denoument; resolution
In a play, character's action description and thought are revealed by _______________ or _____________________.
Dialogue and diction
_______________ portrayed the relationship between the inner self and the external world _______________ American poet who excelled at composing scary poems and short stories _______________ brilliant English playwright who wrote 154 sonnets _______________ Russia's most famous poet
Emily Dickson Edgar Allen Poe Williams Shakespeare Alexander Punshkin
___________ poems that depict heroes ___________ poems that tell a story ___________ poems that contain verse that is to be spoken or sung ___________ poems that relate the poet's emotions
Epic narrative dramatic lyric
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds that provides external rhyming.
False
Gorboduc used free verse instead of bound verse in an Elizabethan drama.
False
Melodramas and farces were frequently staged during the Middle Age and the Post-Edwardian drama.
False
_____________ wrote plays with a political slant.
Harold Pinter
____________ created heroes who developed their good qualities and were not born with them.
John Dryden
LESSON 3
LESSON 3
LESSON 4
LESSON 4
LESSON 5
LESSON 5
A fictional literary piece's time and place are its _________________.
Setting
Unlike the meaning that is associated with the word comedy today, a comedy in drama could be playful or _______________________.
find fault
______________________ plays such as Society exposed social problems.
Thomas William Robertson
A comedy may be ___________ or ____________; responses range from scorn to joy.
find fault; playful
An example of alliteration is repeating consonant sounds on two or more word beginnings in a verse.
True
Cavalier romances were produced for the court in the Carolinean dramas.
True
Onomatopoeia is illustrated by the word zoom.
True
Post-Edwardian dramas were dominated by realism and fantasy.
True
_________________ created Hamlet and Macbeth and the first comedy of manners.
William Shakespeare
___________ an Elizabethan actor who created some of the world's greatest plays __________ invented the heroic couplet __________ his plays such as Birthday Party have powerful conflicts __________ this 19th-century and Edwardian playwright whose plays foreshadowed modern plays __________ his strong-willed characters dominated his tragedies __________ showed new concerns about life's meaning and societal ills
Williams Shakespeare John Dryden Harold Pinter George Bernard Shaw Christopher Marlowe Thomas Williams Robertson
The plot of a fictional work is __________________ events.
a series of related
A character who works against the protagonist is a(n) _______________.
antagonist
The three main parts of a fiction's structure in the order they occur.
beginning, middle, end
A(n) ______________________- verse has a definitive metrical pattern and a rhyming scheme.
boud
A poem that possesses a definitive metrical pattern is ___________ verse.
bound
If an author wishes to dramatize events, he or she should employ ______________________.
first person point of view
Dynamic characters in a fictional work
change as a result to what happens to them
The process of creating people in a fictional work is called _____________________.
characterization
An important element of fiction are the people who perform the actions in a story — they are called the __________________.
characters
The individuals who perform the actions dictated by a play's plot are the ________________.
characters
A type of poetry that was sung on stage in Ancient Greece is called the __________.
choral ode
_____________ poetic tradition that came from the ancient Greeks _____________ poetic tradition that emerged from poetic forms like sonnets and ballads _____________ poems containing verse that speak about normal life
classical romantic realistic
The __________ is the decision that was made.
climax
A __________ is a drama that focuses on characters in an exaggerated situation and may either criticize or be funny, evoking scorn, or laughter.
comedy
A ___________________ showed what happened to a character when one aspect of his personality overshadowed another aspect.
comedy of humours
A _____________-- was a drama that makes fun of a social class' behavior.
comedy of manners
The thing that moves a narrative along is ______________________.
conflict
The point at which a decision must be made is the _________.
crisis
The second most important character; sidekick to the protagonist is the ________________.
deuteranagoist
Character revelation, descriptions of action and composition of thought are all provided by a drama's ________________.
diction
The beginning of a drama is called the ___________.
exposition
If a fictional character experiences conflict with his sister, he is experiencing _________________ conflict.
extrernal
The ________________ follows the climax.
falling action
Figurative language is vague and doesn't create any images.
false
The sound de-DUMM is that of a(n) ___________, the most common foot in English.
iamb
An element of a drama that tells the audience about a major dramatic question is the ____________________.
inciting incident
______________ spells out the major dramatic question ______________ ties up the loose ends ______________ point at which a decision is made about the crisis ______________ provides the background and the present situation ______________ point in a drama where characters encounter complications ______________ happens after the climax and before the play's conclusion
inciting incident resolution climax exposition rising action falling action
If a fictional character argues with himself about whether he should turn in a city official for corruption, he is undergoing __________ conflict.
internal
The degree or height spoken material hits is called ____________________ . It affects a poem's rhythm.
intonation
The heights and depths of how a person speaks when reciting a poem and something which affects it rhythm is called ______________.
intonation
a drama that incorporates music, dancing, singing, acting, and fanciful stage designs is called a _____________.
masque
If you attend a play and it has an evil, evil villain who is so bad that you want to hiss "Boo" at him as he sets his sights on a pure heroine, you are probably watching a _________________.
melodrama
In a _____________ good and evil are pitted against each other in a simplistic moral conflict
melodrama
The second building block of a poem's metrical pattern, _______________ is the number of feet in a verse or a combination of the number and type of feet.
meter
The first building block of bound verse's metrical pattern is __________________, two or three syllables in a rhythmic unit.
metrical foot
A(n) ___________________ character does not have a pivotal role.
minor
A ______________ was an instructive drama that discussed people's behavior.
morality play
If you go to a play and before the curtain rises, you see orchestra members taking their places beneath the stage, you would know that ________________ was going to accompany the play.
music
A story or account of events that may be based upon real life is a ___________________.
narrative
The __________________ describes the relationship between the narrator and the plot.
narrative
The ______________ is the third building block of a poem's metrical pattern and may be expressed as a,b,a,b, among many.
rhyme scheme
A play's structure is provided by the element called __________________
plot
The name for a drama's events and its organization is the ____________________.
plot
If you study bound verse's meter, rhythm, and intonation, then you are studying ______________.
prosody
The encountering of obstacles is the _________________.
rising action
A play's scenery and costumes would be part of its _______________.
spectacle
The gathering of fiction's elements into an organized pattern or __________________ is important.
structure
The overall framework or organization of a play is called its ________________
structure
The central message or lesson of a novel is its ________.
theme
If you attend a play and afterwards feel upset by the theme of child labor, you would have been affected by the play's ___________.
thought
An important element of a drama that merges the character's emotions and ideas is _____________ and includes the __________________ or general meaning.
thought; theme
A serious drama that examines humankind's existence and can evoke pity or fear is called a _____________.
tragedy
A serious play that emphasized serious questions about a man's existence is called a ______________.
tragedy
"Little did they know they would all be dead in a week," is an example of _________________.
universal omniscient
A ______________ was created by William Carlos Williams to reflect how everyday Americans talk.
variable foot
William Carlos Williams captured ________________ language in his poetry that contained the variable foot.
vernacular
The word _______ may be used for both a single line of poetry and a general term for poetry.
verse
A _____________ is a single line of poetry, while a ______________ usually contains four lines
verse; stanza
A play that focuses upon realism is called a ___________ play.
well- made
