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Lower class Elizabethan patrons who stood in the pit to watch shows:
sonnet
blank verse
classical allusion
groundling
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Bad-boy playwright killed in a pub brawl:
Ben Johnson
William Shakespeare
Richard Burbage
Christopher Marlowe
3
Meter with five metrical feet consisting of one unstressed and one stressed syllable:
Iambic Pentameter
Sonnet
Chiasmus
Trochaic Tetrameter
4
Unrhymed iambic pentameter:
allusion
humanism
pun
blank verse
5
A writer in Elizabethan times:
jockey
singer
sonnet
bard
6
Elizabethan movement that focuses on free will instead of the Greek concept of gods:
naturalism
allusion
realism
humanism
7
Shakespeare wrote all
except
the following:
dramas
sonnets
comedies
tragedies
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Shakespeare's comedic technique to keep characters unaware of other characters:
aside
pun
mistaken identity
foil
9
One character speaks his thoughts to himself (and the audience):
soliloquy
foil
monolog
aside
10
Character intentionally tells audience a secret:
aside
foil
soliloquy
monolog
11
Characters highlight attributes with contrast:
Harry Potter
's Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter.
antagonist
protagonist
oxymoron
foil
12
A modern-day literary reference to the Greco-Roman or the Elizabethan era:
groundling
sonnet
classical allusion
blank verse
13
Which of the following flags was NOT flown over Elizabethan theaters?
white=comedy
green=drama
red=history
black=tragedy
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A poem of fourteen lines often in iambic pentameter ending with a rhyming couplet:
chiasmus
oxymoron
aside
sonnet
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Elizabethan poet laureate:
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Richard Burbage
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Audience knows things most characters don't know:
chiasmus
verbal irony
situational irony
dramatic irony
17
Precursors to Elizabethan plays:
mystery & morality plays
Punch & Judy shows
Comedia del Artre
sitcoms
18
Shakespeare's "beautiful tyrant," "damned saint," "honorable villain," & modern "jumbo shrimp"
Deus ex machina
chiasmus
in medias res
oxymoron
19
Stereotypical characters and situations (plots) used by playwrights:
comedic
tragedians
stage crew
stock
20
A play on words with profound meanings:
aside
oxymoron
foil
pun
21
Most famous Elizabethan actor:
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Johnson
Richard Burbage
William Shakespeare
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You can take the boy out of New York but you can't take the New York out of the boy.
soliloquy
foil
chiasmus
oxymoron