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Characteristics of Shakespearean Tragedy
Characteristics of Shakespearean Tragedy
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Shakespearean Literary Devices
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These play on words were mastered by Shakespeare and used for humor?
Pun
Blank Verse
Dramatic Irony
Comic Relief
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This is when the character makes a brief remark to reveal private thoughts or secrets?
Aside
Monologue
Soliloquy
Pun
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A greek term meaning "excessive pride."
Ethos
Hubris
Tragic Flaw
Pathos
4
This is a line pattern with five unstressed and stressed syllables?
Rhyme
Iambic Pentameter
Sonnet
Blank verse
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Which of the following does NOT describe a tragic hero?
Has a flaw
Fails or dies
Is the antagonist of the story
Is high in rank or status
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This type of drama ends in catastrophe for the main characters?
Blank Verse
Epic
Tragic Hero
Tragedy
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What is created when the audience knows more than the characters in the play?
Pun
Allusion
Dramatic Irony
Comic Relief
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The Prince's speech to the city of Verona in I.i is an example of this.
Soliloquy
Dramatic Irony
Monologue
Aside
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This form of poetry by Shakespeare resembles natural speech?
Pun
Iambic Pentameter
Comic Relief
Blank Verse
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An example of everyday speech used by the common folk.
Iambic Pentameter
Prose
Archaic Tetrameter
Verse
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This is a speech in which a character is alone on stage expressing their private thoughts?
Pun
Soliloquy
Monologue
Aside
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The Prologue is an example of this.
Soliloquy
Metaphor
Pun
Foreshadowing