Shakespeare

Question 1

a main division of a drama (his consist of five with each subdivided into scenes)

Answer 1

acts

Question 2

the repetition of the same initial consonant sound

Answer 2

alliteration

Question 3

a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Answer 3

allusion

Question 4

a brief remark made by a character, intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage

Answer 4

aside

Question 5

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 5

blank verse

Question 6

the downfall of the tragic here

Answer 6

castastrophe

Question 7

the most emotional point when the conflict is addressed

Answer 7

climax

Question 8

a deliberate contrast of light and dark to highlight movement or intensify a scene

Answer 8

chiaroscuro

Question 9

a feeling created by a humorous action or speech that appears after a serious moment within a serious work of literature

Answer 9

comic relief

Question 10

a play that starts in turmoil, but finishes happy. Usually makes fun of the political system or human nature

Answer 10

comedy

Question 11

an extended metaphor that uses elaborate and exaggerated comparisons

Answer 11

conceit

Question 12

the one event that initiates the rising action

Answer 12

exciting force

Question 13

a character that takes the opposite role of another character

Answer 13

foil

Question 14

a hint of what is to come in the story often used to keep audience in a state of expectancy

Answer 14

foreshadowing

Question 15

a play based on real events or characters

Answer 15

history

Question 16

a two syllable metrical foot consisting of unaccented followed by accented words (five feet)

Answer 16

iambic pentameter

Question 17

the results from a contrast between appears to be and what really is

Answer 17

irony

Question 18

the contrast between what is said and what is meant

Answer 18

verbal irony

Question 19

the events not known to a character but are known to an audience

Answer 19

dramatic irony

Question 20

two opposite ideas working together

Answer 20

oxymoron

Question 21

a statement that to be contradictory but actually presents a truth

Answer 21

paradox

Question 22

giving human qualities to inanimate objects

Answer 22

personification

Question 23

a play on words; using a word or phrase that has more than one meaning or words that sound the same

Answer 23

pun

Question 24

a small unit of a play in which there is no shift of local or time

Answer 24

scene

Question 25

a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as

Answer 25

simile

Question 26

a dramatic convention allows a character, alone on stage, to speak his or her own thoughts aloud

Answer 26

soliloquy

Question 27

a poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

Answer 27

sonnet

Question 28

a dramatic writing which contains many struggles and usually ends in catastrophe contains a tragic hero

Answer 28

tragedy

Question 29

the main character, usually upperclass, who, through choice or circumstance, is caught up in a sequence of events that inevitably results in a catastrophe. We usually sympathize with this character as we too are caught up in the events.

Answer 29

tragic hero

Question 30

the character trait in a tragic hero, which causes his downfall

Answer 30

tragic flaw