english 10B

Attempts to instruct and edify the audience as well as entertain it by presenting a story with a clear moral were called _____.

miracle plays mystery plays morality plays <

was the more sophisticated of the Roman writers of comedy.

Plautus, Terence, Euripides, Aristophanes, Seneca, Sophocles, Aeschylus

How does Higgins respond when Liza says the following? "Aha! Now I know how to deal with you. What a fool I was not to think of it before! You can't take away the knowledge you gave me. You said I had a finer ear than you. And I can be civil and kind to people, which is more than you can. Aha! That's done you, Henry Higgins, it has. Now I don't care that [snapping her fingers] for your bullying and your big talk. I'll advertize it in the papers that your duchess is only a flower girl that you taught, and that she'll teach anybody to be a duchess just the same in six months for a thousand guineas. Oh, when I think of myself crawling under your feet and being trampled on and called names, when all the time I had only to lift up my finger to be as good as you, I could just kick myself."

He almost hits her. He is so angry he stumbles and falls. He is impressed and likes her more. He is unmoved.

According to the class structure at the time, who is the "true gentleman" in this play?

Higgins Freddy Doolittle Pickering

Who does the following describe? THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER. Yes: tell HIM where he come from if you want to go fortune-telling. THE NOTE TAKER. Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge, and India.

Higgins Pickering Freddy

Who says the following and why? "Oh, I can't be bothered with young women. My idea of a loveable woman is something as like you as possible. I shall never get into the way of seriously liking young women: some habits lie too deep to be changed. . . . Besides, they're all idiots."

Higgins is telling his mother why he is not dating anyone. Pickering is explaining why he has chosen to remain a bachelor. Doolittle is justifying his marriage. Mrs. Higgins is explaining why she does not want to be part of Higgins's plan. Mrs. Pearce is explaining why she does not like Liza.

was a freed Roman slave.

Plautus, Terence, Euripides, Aristophanes, Seneca, Sophocles, Aeschylus > Terence

You know that Shaw tried to use his plays to promote social messages. You also know that he was a socialist. What is the most likely "moral" of the story concerning the use of language?

Language should be used to climb the social ladder; literally, it can turn flower girls into duchesses. Proper use of language can "declass" the lower classes and help them out of "the gutter." Proper use of language, including not swearing, is the proud and proper mark of a gentleman. > Higher classes have a "higher" consciousness and therefore naturally speak better than the lower classes.

Who says the following and why? I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. ... But my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I don't need less than a deserving man: I need more. I don't eat less hearty than him; and I drink a lot more. I want a bit of amusement, cause I'm a thinking man... I ain't pretending to be deserving. I'm undeserving; and I mean to go on being undeserving.

Liza is trying to convince Pickering to buy some flowers. Doolittle is trying to get five pounds out of Higgins. Higgins is relating Doolittle's philosophy to Pickering. Doolittle is trying to get rid of his new riches.

Who does the following describe? The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty.

Mrs. Higgins Mrs. Hill Liza Clara

Who does the following describe? "A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere—no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon."

Mrs. Hill Mrs. Doolittle Liza Clara

Select all that apply. Which of the following characteristics do Higgins and Pygmalion have in common?

Neither initially has any interest in marriage. Both are obsessed with perfect beauty. Both are obsessed with their "arts." Both openly declare their love for their "finished products." Both are very controlling.

Who does the following describe? _____ treats a duchess like a flower girl.

Pickering Doolittle Liza Higgins Clara

had involved plots and emphasized internal struggles.

Plautus, Terence, Euripides, Aristophanes, Seneca, Sophocles, Aeschylus

openly ridiculed Greek gods in his comedies.

Plautus, Terence, Euripides, Aristophanes, Seneca, Sophocles, Aeschylus

Select all that apply. What does the following description tell us about Liza? Eliza smiles for the first time; expresses her feelings by a wild pantomime in which an imitation of Higgins's exit is confused with her own triumph; and finally goes down on her knees on the hearthrug to look for the ring.

She is pleased with herself for making Higgins lose his temper because she knows she hurt him. She is terrified that Higgins will hit her if she doesn't find the ring. Her sense of honor overrides Higgins's attempts to tempt her with wild promises. She ultimately cares for Higgins very much. She only wants the ring for its cash value.

English drama began as

coliseum events public spectacle court drama religious ceremony <

What does "new small talk" mean in Pygmalion?

common conversation such as weather and health the cool new slang that the young people use the dialect of the lowest classes the dialect of the highest classes

Read the following excerpt and determine the best meaning for didactic. ... I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else. ...

frivolous instructive tragic boring

According to Liza, what is the difference between a lady and a flower girl?

how she dresses how she speaks how she treats people how she is treated

Words that may have several meanings in a humorous situation are _____.

metaphors similes puns <

1. when the audience knows what the characters do not know 2. a play dealing with a serious subject 3. plot structure 4. a literary work imitating the style of another 5. the highest point of rising action 6. the introduction to a play 7. the ending of a play 8. cleansing of emotions

parody prologue - 5 climax tragedy pyramid-shaped epilogue catharsis - 8 dramatic irony - 1

What is the most important function of the rainstorm at the beginning of the play?

to create a believable space for Liza and Higgins to meet to provide a way for Higgins and Pickering to be able to meet to foreshadow the importance of the Hill's later roles to comically portray Higgins as cop

What is the climax of Pygmalion?

when Liza comes to Wimpole Street for lessons when Liza confronts Higgins about her future when Higgins accepts Liza's offer for lessons when Liza wins the bet for Higgins at the party

When is Higgins's "Galatea" finally given "life"?

when Venus wakes her when she falls in love with Higgins when she passes at the garden party when she stands up to Higgins

In what ways does Shaw's play depart from the meaning of the Pygmalion myth? Answer in at least four complete sentences.

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