A flaw in a character's personality

The Renaissance is characterised by

Humanism and a renewed interest in Antiquity

What characterises the reign of Queen Elizabeth?

Prosperity, progress and expanding markets

What characterises a sonnet?

14 lines of rhymed iambic pentameter, three quatrains and a couplet

Impulsiveness and passionate nature

When a character speaks to the audience

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Tragic flaw
A flaw in the tragedy
A dramatic flaw used to create tension
A flaw in a character's personality
2
Shakespeare lived
from 1564-1616
from 1564-1600
from 1569-1601
3
A lenghty speech in a play in which a character reveals his thought/feelings to the audience
A monologue
A soliloquy
An oxymoron
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The Renaissance is characterised by
A re-awakening of interest in religion and God
Humanism and a renewed interest in Antiquity
Religious tolerance
A dystopian society
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What characterises the reign of Queen Elizabeth?
A bloody civil war and the act of supremacy
Prosperity, progress and expanding markets
The climax of the power of the nobility in English history
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What characterises a sonnet?
10 lines, divided into three quatrains and a couplet and iambic pentameter
14 lines, divided into three quatrains and a couplet. Blank verse
14 lines of rhymed iambic pentameter, three quatrains and a couplet
12 lines, divided into three quatrains and a couplet and blank verse
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What happens when the Great Chain of Being is disrupted?
Chaos and disorder erupts
The hierarchy changes and man is no longer the central link
Order is restored
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The English Reformation was instigated by which English King/Queen?
Henry 8.
Elizabeth 1.
Henry 7.
Mary 1.
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Shakespeare's dialogue is often written in
Blank verse
Free verse
The form of a sonnet
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A verse form which consists of unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Free verse
Blank verse
Black verse
Soliloquy
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Shakespeare lived during this period.
The Renaissance
The Middle Ages
The Enlightenment
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When the audience knows something that a character on stage does not know.
Onomatopoeia
Tragic flaw
Aside
Dramatic irony
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Romeo's tragic flaw
Irrational nature
Impulsiveness and passionate nature
Ambition and greed
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What is an aside?
Figurative language
Blank verse
When a character speaks to the audience
A lengthty speech performed by a character who is alone on stage

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