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S2S Elizabethan Info
S2S Elizabethan Info
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A writer in Elizabethan times:
jockey
bard
sonnet
singer
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Stereotypical characters and situations (plots) used by playwrights:
stock
comedic
stage crew
tragedians
3
A modern-day literary reference to the Greco-Roman or the Elizabethan era:
blank verse
sonnet
groundling
classical allusion
4
Elizabethan movement that focuses on free will instead of the Greek concept of gods:
realism
naturalism
humanism
allusion
5
Shakespeare's "beautiful tyrant," "damned saint," "honorable villain," & modern "jumbo shrimp"
Deus ex machina
oxymoron
in medias res
chiasmus
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Characters highlight attributes with contrast:
Harry Potter
's Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter.
protagonist
antagonist
oxymoron
foil
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Precursors to Elizabethan plays:
sitcoms
Comedia del Artre
Punch & Judy shows
mystery & morality plays
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Shakespeare's comedic technique to keep characters unaware of other characters:
pun
mistaken identity
aside
foil
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter:
pun
humanism
allusion
blank verse
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A play on words with profound meanings:
oxymoron
aside
pun
foil
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Meter with five metrical feet consisting of one unstressed and one stressed syllable:
Trochaic Tetrameter
Iambic Pentameter
Chiasmus
Sonnet
12
Character intentionally tells audience a secret:
aside
soliloquy
foil
monolog
13
Which of the following flags was NOT flown over Elizabethan theaters?
black=tragedy
red=history
green=drama
white=comedy
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Shakespeare wrote all
except
the following:
dramas
sonnets
comedies
tragedies
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Bad-boy playwright killed in a pub brawl:
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Richard Burbage
Ben Johnson
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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.
foil
soliloquy
chiasmus
oxymoron
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Elizabethan poet laureate:
Ben Johnson
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Richard Burbage
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Lower class Elizabethan patrons who stood in the pit to watch shows:
groundling
sonnet
blank verse
classical allusion
19
One character speaks his thoughts to himself (and the audience):
aside
monolog
foil
soliloquy
20
A poem of fourteen lines often in iambic pentameter ending with a rhyming couplet:
oxymoron
chiasmus
sonnet
aside
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Most famous Elizabethan actor:
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Richard Burbage
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Audience knows things most characters don't know:
verbal irony
dramatic irony
chiasmus
situational irony