Unit 9 Flashcards
(25 cards)
In the summers, the Finch children mostly ___.
dramaticize stories
Chapters 1–7 of To Kill a Mockingbird deal mainly with ___.
children wondering about the mysterious Boo Radley
The cultural setting of the book To Kill a Mockingbird is ___.
during the 1930s before the Civil Rights Act
“The Proposal” is about getting into a _____.
marriage
_____ is a dramatic convention whereby one character speaks to the audience to reveal important information that other characters do not know.
an aside
A Russian realist writer and author of “The Proposal” is _____.
Chekhov
Racial segregation is ___.
seperating people of different races or color
An artistic movement forsaking the past and showing experimentation in new art forms is called _____.
modernism
Prejudice is ___.
having an unjust or negative opinion about a group of people
Ideas from other well-known works referred to in a piece of literature are called _____.
allusions
Scout wonders if Boo Radley is ___.
alive
In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello, _____ ruins Othello’s marriage.
lago
______ is a dramatic convention whereby a character overhears important information about the plot and informs the audience.
Eavesdropping
Scout’s friend and neighbor mostly concerned about the beauty of her garden was ___.
Miss Maudie
A dramatic convention of a character making a speech expressing inner thoughts but not speaking to other characters on stage is _____.
a soliloquy
used by actors to differentiate the characters they play
masks
a situation in a movie or play when the audience has more knowledge than some characters do
dramatic irony
What is “The Persians”?
the oldest surviving Greek drama
background information given at the beginning of a play that introduces the characters and the major conflict
prologue
Antigone is an ancient _____ play by Sophocles about family devotion
Greek
a group of people who dance, sing, and comment on the actions of the play
chorus
main subject of Sophocles’ “Theban” plays
King Oedipus
“The Proposal” is a _____ because it makes fun of a cultural expectation.
satire
A comedy with nonsense and crude or improbable situations is called a(n) ______.
farce
