Midterm Flashcards
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
A poem with three quatrains, using a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef, followed by an ending couplet of two lines with a rhyme scheme of gg.
What is the greek word for fatal flaw?
Hamartia
Who, twice, doesn’t show up to meet Oedipus?
Tiresias
What is the greek word for seeing place?
Theatron
What characterizes the beginning of a tragedy?
Miasma (Pollution)
What are the three types of irony?
Verbal irony, situationnal irony and dramatic irony.
How does Aristotle define tragedy?
Is an imitation of an action serious, complete, and of certain magnitude.
What is a catharsis?
Cleansing in the audience
What type of irony occurs when you say something but mean the opposite?
Verbal irony.
Name two kinds of “genre” Shakespeare wrote
comedies, tragedies, romances
How do we write the name of the writer of Romeo and Juliet?
Shakespeare
Why is the blindness of Teiresias situational irony?
Because he knows the truth.
What is the significance of “wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Wherefore art thou Romeo means why are you Romeo. The meaning behind this is why is he a Montague.
What two emotions should tragedy inflict?
Pity & Fear
What kind of emotions does Aristotle wants the audience to feel?
Pity and Fear
What metrical pattern does William Shakespeare use in his poem.
Shakespeare used a metrical pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, called blank verse.
What happens in Act 4-5 of Romeo & Juliet:
- The nurse went to wake Juliet up and realizes that she is dead. Scream and the parents come.
- Cancel the wedding and turn it into a funeral. Juliet is put in the family crypt.
- Someone goes to Mantua and tells Romeo that juliet is dead. (the letter that Friar Lawrence wrote did not reach him)
- Romeo buys the poison and goes back to Verona.
- He goes to the crypt with the poison to kill himself next to Juliet and be with her forever, but Paris is in his way and they fight.
- Romeo wins the fight and kills Paris.
- Friar Lawrence realizes that the letter did not reach Romeo but it is too late.
- Romeo kisses Juliet one last time and drinks the poison. Dies and Juliet stabs herself when she realized.
When did theater change from being under the control of religious institutions to being a money-making institutions?
In the Renaissance. It was in the Late Middle Ages that the church controlled theater.
Why does Friar Lawrence accept to marry Romeo and Juliet?
Because he believes that it will put an end to the feud.
Identify the type of irony:
Micheal Phelps drowned in his pool yesterday.
Situational irony.
Dionysus is the god of…
Fertility
True/False: The main character of a tragedy could be a villain. Why?
False. We can’t fee empathy for someone that is bad; it wouldn’t illict pity & fear.
what kind of feeling does Aristotle want the audience to feel at the end of the drama?
A feeling of cleansing/Catharsis
What is special about the form of the prologue of Romeo and Juliet?
It’s a sonnet
