Intro to Drama, Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theater

Speech-A character alone on stage reveals private thoughts/feelings that the audience can hear.

In Greek drama-outstanding/noble person brought low by a mistaken action/defect in character.

A character says one thing but means another.

An insight into life.

A long,uninterrupted speech delivered by a character to characters who are onstage but silent.

The divisions of an Act in a play

What is a meter consisting of 5 iambs(unstressed followed by stressed syllable) per line?

A play which has a happy ending after an amusing series of predicaments.

The outcome of a circumstance is different than what the audience/reader expects.

Who patronized Shakespeare's acting company?

Which of the following is unrhymed iambic pentameter?

Two terms contradict each other but work together for one meaning.

A speech to the audience by a character who is alone on stage sharing deep personal thoughts.

The mistaken action or defect in character of the hero which brings about his/her downfall.

Shows the downfall, or death of the tragic hero, or main character.

Greek Drama-group of actors who comment on action of play-Shakespeare used 1 actor for this.

Janet walked down the hall &her popularity was evident in the parting of the red sea is?

A difference between appearance and reality.

Movable objects, like swords or pens, that actors use onstage.

When were performances held during Shakespeare's time?

What was the name of the theater in which Shakespeare acted but was also part owner?

The audience/reader knows something that the characters do not know.

What are the dates of Shakespeare's Birth/Death?

Words spoken actor directly to audience that arenot "heard" by the other characters on stage.

How many plays and sonnets did Shakespeare write?

A fourteen-line lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter w/last two lines as a couplet?