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Revision Midterm Flashcards

1
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What is a topic?

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only one word

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What is the theme?

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a full sentence

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What is theatron?

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seeing place

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What is a performance in the framework of the story, speaking or singing the words of a more or less fixed text?

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Drama

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5
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A space for dramatic performences?

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Theater

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6
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Name 5 literary elements

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Theme, symbolism, plot, monologue, and irony

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Technical elements; there are stage props name them(4)

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Costumes, make-up, lights, and decorations

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What is the use of the technical elements?

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Highlight the theme

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Body language, mouvement, and the voice (variation of tone) are?

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Performance elements

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10
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What do you find in literary, technical, and performance elements?

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Stage directions

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11
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(evolution of drama)
religious rituals are found in which countries(2) in particular?

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Africa and Ancient Egypt

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12
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Asia and Japan; Noh vs Kabuki what do they represent?

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Noh: for the rich aristocratic
Kabuki: for the masses

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13
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What is the name of the writing festival in Ancient Greece?
Sophocoles won it many times

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The City Dyonisa

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14
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What deos secular mean?
when does theater become secular?

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non religious
Renaissance

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15
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Where can you find secular festivities?

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Ancient Rome

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16
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What does the church think about theater in the early Middle Ages?

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The Church discourages it

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17
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What does the church think about theater in the late Middle Ages?

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encourages religious theater

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18
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When does Theater become a distinct institution?

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Renaissance

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19
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When does Antiquity end (Middle ages begin)?

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476

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When does the Renaissance begin( end of middle ages)?

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around 1500

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21
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What does Tragedy focuses on?

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The misfortune of the individual

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What does the Comedy focuses on?

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Fortune of the community or common good

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23
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What is a distinct ending in comedy?

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Often ends with marriages or some sort of celebration

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24
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The sense of reform or renewal of the society is associeted with?

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Comedy

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25
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The protagonist is singled out through circumstances and his own actions, both of which bring to his downfall. This is?

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Tragedy

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What are the 5 stages in order of Tragedy according to Aristotle?

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Miasma, Hamartia, Peripetia, , Anagnorisis, and Catharsis

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What is Miasma?

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The pollution, will go away once the hero falls

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What is Hamartia?

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The fatal flaw often hubris(excessive pride and the defiance of the Gods)

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What is Peripetia?

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Things are crumbling good to bad

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30
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What is Cartharsis?

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The cleansing it is only possible because the hero falls

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31
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What is Anagnorisis?

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The enlightment phase

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32
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What are the 3 unities?

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Time, place and action

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33
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Name 2 Greek playwrights

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Sophocles and Euripides

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34
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What is the chorus and name 2 characteristics?

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It represents the audiance and its questions and they often wear masks and talk in unison

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35
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What is the choragos?

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Rich Athenians that would pay for the costumes and other things and he is the leader of the chorus

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36
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Name the 3 types of irony

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verbal, situational, and dramatic

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37
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What is verbal irony?

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Say something but mean the opposite

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38
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What is situational irony

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making decisions and actions to avoid something , and by doing those you make it happen

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39
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What is dramatic irony?

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we know something they don’t

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40
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Name 3 characteristics of symbolism

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Appear more than once in the story
described at length
placed stategecally in the story

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41
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What is something that is concrete?

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Symbols/symbolism

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42
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symbols can be (3)?

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an object
an action
a color
anything

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43
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What is the difference between cultural and literary symbolism?

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cultural: society shares the symbol
literary: the meaning of the symbol is tighed to the text

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44
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What is the line that separates the stage and the apron?

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Proscenium line/arc

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45
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Name all the places on stage in order of importance (most to least)?

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Downstage center, stage center, downstage right, downstage left, upstage center, stage right, stage left, upstage right, upstage left

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46
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What are the wings (stage)?

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the curtains

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47
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Why is it called downstage and upstage?

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Because the stage was inclined

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48
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Why was the stage inclined?

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so the audience could see what was happening at the back of the stage

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49
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What is the Renaissance?

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return of the art and esthetic values of Antiquity

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50
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What is Shakespeare’s last play?

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The tempest

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51
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During the Renaissance 1 country had political upheaval and had stricter laws which one is it?

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England

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52
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In the Renaissance if you wanted to be an actor you had to be in_______ under the protection of a _____ or _______.

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theatrical company
lord
lady

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53
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Name 2 reasons why theaters were not allowed within city limits

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The plague and the church

54
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Which company was Shakespeare a part of?

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Lord Chamberlain’s Men or the King’s Men

55
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What are stakeholders?

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playwrights, actors, etc.

56
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Were women allowed to participate in a play?

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No

57
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Name the 4 characteristics of the Blackfriar

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500 capacity
private playhouse
rectangular
for the fortunate class

58
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Name the two main theaters?

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Blackfriar and the Globe

59
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Name 4 characteristics of the Globe

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3000 capacity
circular
open playhouse
for all classes

60
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In the Globe could people in front of the stage get wet if it rained?

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Yes

61
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In the Globe what is the difference between seated places and standing up places?

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seated: pricier
standing up: cheaper

62
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What is the name for someone who wrote plays?

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craftsman

63
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Why are playwrihgters called craftsmen?

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because they would take a well-known story (based on history) and craft it to change it a little

64
Q

Wrighting plays is not about originality ut more about __________?

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craftsmanship

65
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Who were the royalty during Shakespeare,s time?

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Elizabeth 1
James 1

66
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Under the reign of Elizabeth is __________?

A

Elizabetean

67
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Under the reign of James is __________?

A

Jacobian

68
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How many plays did Shakespeare write?

A

39

69
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How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

A

154

70
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Who was Shakespeare’s wife?
name 2 characteristics about her

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Anne Hathaway
she is older and very wealthy

71
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Romance is a mix of 2 dramatic genres, which ones?

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Tragedy and comedy

72
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When was As You Like it written and when was it published?

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1599-1600
1623

73
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What is the date of birth and of death of Shakespeare?

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1564-1616

74
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Why was As You Like it published after Shakespeare’s death?

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To keep the monopole of the play
If only they know the lines only they could make money off of the play

75
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What does pastoral mean?

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The idealazation of the countryside

76
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What is As You Like it based on?

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Rosalynde (1590): a pastoral romance of Thomas Lodge it is written in prose

77
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What is Deus Ex Machina?
Give an example

A

The gods out of the machine they restore the peace
When the ending sounds like a fairytale (like all the marriages at the end of As You Like it)

78
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Who is Hymen?

A

Greek God of marriage

79
Q

In one word descibe Rosalind and Orlando’s love

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True, pure, faithful, passionate

80
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In one word describe Celia and Oliver’s love

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Fast/quick, rushed, rash, impulsive, underdevelopped

81
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In one word describe Audrey and Touchstones love

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sexual, short-term love, desire, carnal (carne=viande), physical, lustful

82
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In one word describe Phebe and Sylvius love

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circumstantial, resigned, one-sided

83
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Name the four Humors and their characteristics

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Black bile- melancholic
Sanguine- blood
Phlegm- Phlegmatic (insansibility)
Yellow bile- choleric

84
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What is the meaning of Aliena?

A

stranger

85
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Who is Ganymede in the Greek mythology?

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Zeus’s lover
He is very young

86
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What is a touchstone?

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A rock used to establish the worth of other metals

87
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What is the contrast between the forest and the court?

A

freedom of speech
no freedom of speech

88
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What is wrong with the court?

A

People in places of power are corrupted

89
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Who is Jupiter?

A

Zeus

90
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Who speaks and what is the meaning of this passage: His horses are bred/better; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are/taught their manage,

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Orlando is saying that his brother’s horses are more educated than him since his brother is keeping out of school

91
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Who speaks and what is the meaning?
The duke is humorous: what he is, indeed,/ More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.

A

Le Beau
He can’t say what he wants because it might to Duke Frederick and it might upset him

92
Q

What is Nature and what is Fortune?

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Nature: everything that is innate, born with it
Fortune: Fate and luck (course of action)

93
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Who speaks and what is the meaning?
And churlish chiding of the winter’s wind, /Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,/ Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say/ This is no flattery: these are counsellors/ That feelingly persuade me what I am.

A

Duke Senior
That in the forest no one has to suck up to him. They can tell him the truth just like the wind that never lies to him it just bites(tells the truth as it is)

94
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Who speaks and what is the meaning?
Live a little, comfort a little; cheer thyself a little. If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee.

A

Orlando
He is trying to cheer up Adam to make him continue a little until they find food.

95
Q

Who created these lyrics and what is the purpose of the song?
If I do come to pass
That any man turn ass
Leaving his wealth and ease
A stubborn will to please
Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame
Here shall he see
Gross fools as he
And if he will come to me

A

Jaques
He is insulting everyone especially the duke senior

96
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Who says this and what is the relevance?
“Truly the tree yields bad fruits”

A

Touchstone
He is insulting Orlando’s poetry

97
Q

Who says this what is the meaning of the horns and what is the relevance?
Many a man knows no end of his goods; right many a man has no good horns and knows no end of them.

A

Touchstone
He is saying that every wife cheats on her husband.
The horns represent cuckoldry.

98
Q

Who says this and what is the meaning?
I see no more in you than the ordinary of nature’s sale-work(ready-made goods).

A

Rosalind/Ganymede
She is putting Phebe in her place by telling her she isn’t exceptional

99
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What are the 4 lessons Rosalind teaches Orlando?

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1-Material things matter
2-Physical love is important but comes second to a true connection
3-Love isn’t the only thing in life it isn’t like air or water
4-Don’t idealize Rosalind she is human and inperfect

100
Q

ho said it and what does it mean?
There is, sure, another flood toward, and these couples are coming to the ark.

A

Jaques
He is refering to Noah’s ark in the Bible because people(couples) are coming in pairs just like the animals before the flood.

101
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Who speaks, to whom and what is the meaning?
You to his love must accord, or have a woman to your lord

A

Hymen to Phebe
You must respond to Sylvious love or have a woman as a husband

102
Q

Who speaks and what is the relevance?
one of them thought but of an If, as If you said so, then I said so; and they shook hands and swore brothers.

A

Touchstone
The If is the only thing that saved him at the end of an argument with someone more powerful than him

103
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Who says: “In his own conduct, purposely to take his brother here and put him to the sword”?
What does put him to the sword mean?

A

Jaques de Boys(brother of Oliver and Orlando)
kill someone

104
Q

Duke Frederick giving the dukedom back to Duke Senior is ______?

A

Deus Ex Machina or the work of the gods

105
Q

Who speaks and what does it mean?
“Meantime forget this new-fallen dignity, and fall into our rustic revelry(party).”

A

Duke Senior
He is saying let us party before going back to the court where we will have responsibilities and work to do.

106
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Jaques tells Touchstone: “And you to wrangling for thy loving voyage is for but two months victuall’d.” What does it mean?

A

After two months the sexual desire will fade away and he will be left with nothing.

107
Q

What shows that it is a new World?

A

Adam and Jaques who seemed like important characters are not present during the dance(only the youth remains)

108
Q

Normally only the Gods say the epilogue but in the Book Rosalind says it why?

A

Because she did the work of the Gods
she arranged all the marriages

109
Q

What is the gift of the forest?

A

Knowledge, Freedom, Tolerance, and Inclusion(all classes together)

110
Q

Give 3 characteristics of the tragic hero

A

Above the common man
Wants the common good
Has a fatal flaw

111
Q

Who says this?
“In matters where I have no cognizance I hold my tongue”p.23

A

Creon

112
Q

Why should the reader feel pity and fear when reading a Tragedy?

A

to relate to the hero

113
Q

Who is suspected of being Laius’s killer in act 2?

A

Oedipus

114
Q

Why does Oedipus wants to find Laius’s killer?

A

To protect Thebes and its citizens

115
Q

How does Tiresias “sees” better than Oedipus?

A

He knows the truth and Oedipus doesn’t

116
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Who says this: “It is folly this attempt of yours, without a following, without friends, to hunt after a throne” and what does it mean?

A

Oedipus
You killed Laius and it is crazy for you to come after the throne because you have nothing
Ironic since it is how he became king

117
Q

Who said this and what does it mean?
“Now I have all things without fear from you; reigned I myself, I must do much I hated.”

A

Creon
I don’t want to be king because I have all the priviledges of a king by proxy without the responsibilities.

118
Q

Who loses constantly their temper?

A

Oedipus

119
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Who says that Oedipus cheated the prophecy?

A

Jocasta

120
Q

Who said; “One cannot be the same as many.”
and what does it mean(2)?

A

Oedipus
If it was robber”s” he is nor the murderer
and he can’t be a son, a husband, and a father (to Jocasta and their children)at the same time but he is

121
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What does the death of Polybus mean?

A

That Oedipus did not kill Laius (false)

122
Q

When Jocasta refuses to tell him about his parentage what does he assume?

A

That he might be a slave

123
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What does Jocasta do at the end?

A

She kills herself (hanging)

124
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What does Oedipus do at the end?

A

Pierce his eyes with Jocastas’s gold pins

125
Q

Oedipus aks one favor to Creon at the end what is it?

A

Take care of my daughters

126
Q

When Oedipus asks for exile what does Creon says?

A

We will ask the gods firt

127
Q

Name 2 important symbols in Oedipus Rex

A

sight vs blindness
Fate vs Free will

128
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What is Oedipus’s fatal flaw?

A

Hubris
defiance of the Gods and excessive pride

129
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Does sarcasm= verbal irony?

A

No
Sarcasm is only a type of verbal irony
It is meant to hurt which is not always the case with verbal Irony

130
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Who wrote Oedipus Rex and in which year?

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Sophocles
soon after 430 B.C.

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