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Dramatic devices in Shakespeare
Dramatic devices in Shakespeare
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A quiz on the dramatic devices used in Shakespeare's plays - made for Danish high schoolers.
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The purging of the feelings that, according to Aristotle, occur in the audience of tragic drama.
Anachronism
Mimesis
Catharsis
Catastrophe
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When a poet uses figurative language and speaks of i.e. a "sea of troubles" or "amourous Death"
Ambiguity
Foreshadowing
Connotation
Metaphor
3
A combination of words, which at first seem contradictory. “wise folly”,“deafening silence”.
Connotation
Denoument
Archaism
Oxymoron
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A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Bragging
Recognition
Hyperbole
Metaphor
5
Old-fashioned words in not so old poetry. They elevate the style. Thou + thee etc.
Denotation
Archaisms
Wit
Metaphor
6
A figure of speech in which one says less than what is meant; the opposite of exaggeration.
Underachievement
Understatement
Underline
Undergarment
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Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience - not "heard" by the other characters.
Wit
Soliloquy
Couplet
Aside
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A pun, one thing that can mean two things or more.
Ambition
Fun
Simile
Ambiguity
9
A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters.
Bragging
Soliloquy
Aside
Sermon
10
The resolution of the plot of a literary work. Happens after the catastrophe.
Denoument
Catharsis
Soliloquy
Denotation
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The action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the denoument or falling action of a play.
Catastrophe
Love
Catharsis
Death
12
Words beginning with or containing the same consonant sound.
Allusion
Alliteration
Aside
Anachronism
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Term describing brilliant and surprising imagery. A clever type of verbal humour.
Hyperbole
Humour
Wit
Brains
14
Fourteen verselines with the rhyme scheme: a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g.
Song
Sonnet
Soliloquy
Samba
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Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.
Drama
Set-up
Foreshadowing
Spoilers
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A reference to other literature, mythology or background knowledge of other kind.
Intertextuality
Plagiarism
Wit
Allusion
17
Means unrhymed, iambic pentameter: Shakespeare wrote all of his dramas in...
Rhymes
Blank Verse
London
Bed
18
When two verselines, one after the other, rhyme. They end a sonnet.
Oxymoron
Words
Quatrain
Couplet
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A figure of speech involving a comparison - "My love is like a red, red rose."
Metaphor
Couplet
Simile
Rhyme
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A character or force against which the protagonist, struggles.
Protagonist
Antagonist
Hero
Antigone
