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Midterm Flashcards

1
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What is a Shakespearean sonnet?

A

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.

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What is the greek word for fatal flaw?

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Hamartia

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3
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Who, twice, doesn’t show up to meet Oedipus?

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Tiresias

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4
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What is the greek word for seeing place?

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Theatron

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5
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What characterizes the beginning of a tragedy?

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Miasma (Pollution)

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6
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What are the three types of irony?

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Verbal irony, situationnal irony and dramatic irony.

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7
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How does Aristotle define tragedy?

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Is an imitation of an action serious, complete, and of certain magnitude.

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8
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What is a catharsis?

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Cleansing in the audience

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9
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What type of irony occurs when you say something but mean the opposite?

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Verbal irony.

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10
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Name two kinds of “genre” Shakespeare wrote

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comedies, tragedies, romances

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11
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How do we write the name of the writer of Romeo and Juliet?

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Shakespeare

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12
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Why is the blindness of Teiresias situational irony?

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Because he knows the truth.

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13
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What is the significance of “wherefore art thou Romeo?”

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Wherefore art thou Romeo means why are you Romeo. The meaning behind this is why is he a Montague.

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14
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What two emotions should tragedy inflict?

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Pity & Fear

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15
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What kind of emotions does Aristotle wants the audience to feel?

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Pity and Fear

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16
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What metrical pattern does William Shakespeare use in his poem.

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Shakespeare used a metrical pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, called blank verse.

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17
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What happens in Act 4-5 of Romeo & Juliet:

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  1. The nurse went to wake Juliet up and realizes that she is dead. Scream and the parents come.
  2. Cancel the wedding and turn it into a funeral. Juliet is put in the family crypt.
  3. Someone goes to Mantua and tells Romeo that juliet is dead. (the letter that Friar Lawrence wrote did not reach him)
  4. Romeo buys the poison and goes back to Verona.
  5. 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.
  6. Romeo wins the fight and kills Paris.
  7. Friar Lawrence realizes that the letter did not reach Romeo but it is too late.
  8. Romeo kisses Juliet one last time and drinks the poison. Dies and Juliet stabs herself when she realized.
18
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When did theater change from being under the control of religious institutions to being a money-making institutions?

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In the Renaissance. It was in the Late Middle Ages that the church controlled theater.

19
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Why does Friar Lawrence accept to marry Romeo and Juliet?

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Because he believes that it will put an end to the feud.

20
Q

Identify the type of irony:
Micheal Phelps drowned in his pool yesterday.

A

Situational irony.

21
Q

Dionysus is the god of…

A

Fertility

22
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True/False: The main character of a tragedy could be a villain. Why?

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False. We can’t fee empathy for someone that is bad; it wouldn’t illict pity & fear.

23
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what kind of feeling does Aristotle want the audience to feel at the end of the drama?

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A feeling of cleansing/Catharsis

24
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What is special about the form of the prologue of Romeo and Juliet?

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It’s a sonnet

25
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In Oedipus Rex, what does Rex mean?

A

King

26
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Why does Mercutio fight with Tybalt while he is already in a fight with Romeo?

A

He is defending his friend’s honour.

27
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How does Juliet’s parents react to the death of their daughter?

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They are devastated and at complete loss of words.

28
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What should the protagonist of a tragedy be like?

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Not perfect, but above the common man, like a noble

29
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How did the book end?

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  • End of feud
  • Statues
30
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When does dramatic irony occurs?

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When the audience knows something that the characters don’t.

31
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How did theater emerge?

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It started with religious rituals, ideas and festivals.

32
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Why did the letter not reach Romeo?

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Because of the plague.

33
Q

What literary device is used in “bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”?

A

oxymoron

34
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What happens with theater in the Middle Ages?

A

The church discouraged it, but farces puppetry, mimes survive

35
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“Now you remember the story: Laios was killed
By marauding strangers where three highways meet;
But his child had not been three days in the world
Before the king had pierced the baby’s ankles
And left him to die on a lonely mountainside”

Who said this line, and how is it relevant to the story?

A

Jocasta said this line. It is important because it is the beginning of Oedipus’ curiosity that will lead to his downfall later in the story.

36
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What is the name of the woman Romeo is first in love with?

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Rosalin

37
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In scene 1 of Oedipus Rex, what foreshadows that Oedipus is the son of Laios?

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He claims that he will fulfill Laios’ son’s duty, like if he was his son. ( Scene 1, 48-50)

38
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What does Romeo say to the person that sold him the poison?

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That money is the real poison of this world and that he is the one selling poison

39
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What metric line is typical of Shakespear poetry?

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Iambic pentameter

40
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“You are aware, I hope, that what you say
Means death for me, or exile at the least.
The worst of deaths, if ever I meant that!
It is the withering fields
That hurt my sick heart:
Must we bear all these ills,
And now you bad blood as well?”
Who said this passage?

A

Oedipus

41
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“They prophesied that I should kill Polybos,
Kill my own father; but he is dead and buried,
And I am here-I never touched him, never”
Who said this passage?

A

Oedipus

42
Q

“For God’s love, let us have no more questioning!”
Who said this passage?

A

Jokasta

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