Faith Academy Mrs. Matuska ENGL I: Second Semester Review

Question 1

Which is a drama ending in catastrophe (often death) for the main character and others?

Accepted Answer

Tragedy

Question 2

Which is a person who would recant epic poems, using epic similes and epithets along the way?

Accepted Answer

Bard

Question 3

Which is a system of sponsorship where nobles would sponsor playwrights and poets?

Accepted Answer

Patronage

Question 4

True/False: Queen Elizabeth I was not a strong supporter of the arts.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Which is a humorous scene/incident used to relieve emotional intensity?

Accepted Answer

Comic relief

Question 6

Which is a character with a trait/attitude that highly contrasts that of another?

Accepted Answer

Foil

Question 7

What was NOT a characteristic that Odysseus was known for?

Accepted Answer

Personality

Question 8

True/False: Spelling in the Elizabethan Era was not standardized.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

True/False: The writer of a literary work accomplishes near nothing by using a foil.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

Who was the author of the Odyssey?

Accepted Answer

Homer

Question 11

Which is a brief reference within a work to something outside the audience is expected to know?

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 12

What is the time period in which Queen Elizabeth I reigned called?

Accepted Answer

Elizabethan Age

Question 13

Which is a comparison of two things using like or as?

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 14

The epic poem would be recited by?

Accepted Answer

Bards

Question 15

Which is a form of poetry using lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter?

Accepted Answer

Blank verse

Question 16

Which theater did Shakespeare help to build?

Accepted Answer

The Globe

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a dramatic convention we studied this year?

Accepted Answer

Epithet

Question 18

Which one is a characteristic of an epic hero?

Accepted Answer

They are larger than life

Question 19

What is a long, narrative poem telling of a hero's adventures?

Accepted Answer

Epic poem

Question 20

Which is a brief and descriptive phrase helping to characterize a particular person or thing?

Accepted Answer

Epithet

Question 21

True/False: In Shakespeare's time, imitation was considered to be a good thing.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

What two things did Greeks believe about the gods?

Accepted Answer

Interest in human affairs; humanlike actions

Question 23

Who is widely considered to be the greatest writer/playwright of the English language/all time?

Accepted Answer

Shakespeare

Question 24

What was the first permanent construction for the performance of plays?

Accepted Answer

The Theatre

Question 25

Most of the dialogue in Shakespearean drama is written in what poetic form?

Accepted Answer

A and B

Question 26

Which is a long, narrative poem telling the adventures of an epic hero?

Accepted Answer

Epic

Question 27

Queen Elizabeth I was patron of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

The Leicester's Men

Question 28

Shakespeare belonged to what acting company?

Accepted Answer

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

Question 29

Which is an elaborate and more involved version of a simile?

Accepted Answer

Epic simile

Question 30

Which is NOT an example of a Homeric epithet?

Accepted Answer

"Mister fisher"

Question 31

What was the most prominent physical aspect of Homer?

Accepted Answer

Blindness

Question 32

Which is NOT an area that the Renaissance marked a renewed interest in?

Accepted Answer

Geography

Question 33

True/False: Women were widely accepted as actors is Shakespeare's time.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

Which is a speech a character gives when they are alone on stage, to show their inner thoughts?

Accepted Answer

Soliloquy

Question 35

Which two literary techniques would be used by bards?

Accepted Answer

Epic similes/epithets

Question 36

Which did Elizabethan theater rely most upon?

Accepted Answer

Imagination

Question 37

Which is a larger-than-life figure (typ. male) embodying the ideals of a nation/race?

Accepted Answer

Epic hero

Question 38

Which is a remark on stage to the audience or another character that others "can't" hear?

Accepted Answer

Aside

Question 39

What are devices audiences accepted as true though they might not represent realistic behavior?

Accepted Answer

Dramatic conventions

Question 40

Which is the usually noble protagonist of a tragedy who possesses character flaws?

Accepted Answer

Tragic hero

Question 41

True/False: The Globe theater was not the most popular theater, but second to The Theatre.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

Which is the purpose of a soliloquy?

Accepted Answer

To show inner thoughts

Question 43

True/False: The epic was a written form of poem

Accepted Answer

False

Faith Academy Mrs. Matuska ENGL I: Second Semester Review

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Faith Academy Mrs. Matuska ENGL I: Second Semester Review

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