S2S Final Review

Which of Shakespeare's life events occurred on the same month and day of different years?

Which is not a good reason for adding stage directions to a play?

Which of Shakespeare's characters speak in iambic pentameter?

When an actor speaks directly to the audience, he is performing what?

Mean jokes aimed at people, ideas, or things to improve, correct, or prevent something:

What did actors in Greek plays wear to help express mood and to amplify voices?

The audience and only a few characters know something that most characters don't know.

Which of the following could not be found in Elizabethan theatres?

Who represents the people and gives background to move the plot in a Greek play?

This intimate, noncommercial theatre movement took the place of large spectacles.

The Poetics, the earliest dramatic theory, was written by which ancient Greek philosopher?

Which god was mostly honored at Greek tragic festivals?

A playwright who resolves a problem or concludes a play miraculously employs which technique?

Which is NOT a Shakespearean comedy?

A play that motivates people to act on an idea and support a movement is called what?

"The frailty of women facing turmoil" is part of which of the following devices in Hamlet?

What does an author employ when he strays away from romance toward the negative real life?

Scientific determinism influenced this genre?

Which is NOT a Greek theater tragic playwright?

The main ______________ in Greek tragedies stems from hubris and the gods men offend.

Which of the following does NOT represent a type of Experimental Theater?

When Shakespeare's lower classes use prose, they distinguish class differences and...

Television program or series with serious and comic unconventional plots without laugh tracks:

Shakespeare uses which lit device: "Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man?"

Name the Greek man whose story became a trilogy about incest and fratricide.

This modern acting style creates life-like, honest performances.

Plays that remind us that we are responsible for our own existence are which?

Russian theatrician who subjected acting to a rigorous artistic self-analysis & reflection:

When modern writers refer to Shakespeare's work they are using which literary device?

Which of the following were not permitted to act in Elizabethan theatres?

Harold Pinter's dialog suggests the underlying, real meaning of what a character says.

Aristotle's tragic heroes share all but which of these?

Plays that reflect the beauty of nature and love employ which of these?

What does Shakespeare often use to indicate a major character will exit and/or a scene change?

What device does Shakespeare use when Macbeth's witches say, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair?" 

Comedy that focuses on behavior of people who violate rules of upper-class society.

What kind of character contrasts with and highlights qualities ofthe protagonist? 

Well-developed characters, a strong build to the climax, & no loose ends is called what?

"To begin in the middle of the action" describes which term?

Recycled story lines & characters used often in comedies & sometimes in musicals and tragedies:

Comedy that focuses on a troubled love affair that wins out in the end

The following are all types of modern what: proscenium, thrust, arena?

Crude, low comedy with lots of belly laughs and physical humor.  

The play that came after a tragic trilogy to make the audience laugh was called which?

What is the name of a 16 lined-poem in iambic pentameter ending with a rhyming couplet?

Emerging in the 19th Century, this popular theatre form emphasizes music and dance.

Everything on the stage is from which perspective?

Who was the first actor to step out of the chorus to speak as an individual?

What can the Choragus do that other chorus members cannot do?

Which of Shakespeare's characters speak in prose?

Dark, uncomfortable comedy that portrays the world as unstable and usually ends unhappily.

The alternative name for "Shakespearean" was coined because this monarch supported the arts.

Using artistic forms to create effects, rather than realistic or spontaneous action: