Faith Academy Mrs. Matuska ENGL I: Second Semester Review

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Epithet

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Dramatic conventions

Question 3

The epic poem would be recited by?

Accepted Answer

Bards

Question 4

Queen Elizabeth I was patron of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

The Leicester's Men

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Aside

Question 6

What two things did Greeks believe about the gods?

Accepted Answer

Interest in human affairs; humanlike actions

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Epic poem

Question 8

Shakespeare belonged to what acting company?

Accepted Answer

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

The Theatre

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Epic simile

Question 11

Which one is a characteristic of an epic hero?

Accepted Answer

They are larger than life

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Tragedy

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

Patronage

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Comic relief

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

Shakespeare

Question 16

What was the most prominent physical aspect of Homer?

Accepted Answer

Blindness

Question 17

Which is the purpose of a soliloquy?

Accepted Answer

To show inner thoughts

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Tragic hero

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Foil

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

Epithet

Question 21

What was NOT a characteristic that Odysseus was known for?

Accepted Answer

Personality

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 24

Which is NOT an example of a Homeric epithet?

Accepted Answer

"Mister fisher"

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

Bard

Question 27

Who was the author of the Odyssey?

Accepted Answer

Homer

Question 28

Which did Elizabethan theater rely most upon?

Accepted Answer

Imagination

Question 29

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

Elizabethan Age

Question 32

Which two literary techniques would be used by bards?

Accepted Answer

Epic similes/epithets

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

Epic

Question 34

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

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

Accepted Answer

Soliloquy

Question 37

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

Accepted Answer

Blank verse

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

A and B

Question 39

Which theater did Shakespeare help to build?

Accepted Answer

The Globe

Question 40

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 41

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

Accepted Answer

Geography

Question 42

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

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

Accepted Answer

Epic hero

Faith Academy Mrs. Matuska ENGL I: Second Semester Review

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