Twelth Night Test Part 1

Question 1

Verse

Answer 1

Has a set rhythm and structure.
Blank verse - rhythm
Free verse - no rhyme no rhythm

Question 2

Prose

Answer 2

Conversational way of speaking, it does not have a set rhythm or structure

Question 3

Meter

Answer 3

A recognizable rhythm and a line of voice consisting of a pattern of regularly, recurring, unstressed, and stress syllables

Question 4

Iambic pentameter

Answer 4

Name of rhythm Shakespeare uses.
Unstressed, stressed five times. 10 syllables.

Question 5

Rhyming couplet

Answer 5

Two lines in ionic pentameter that end in the same sound, or a rhyme. Mostly at end of speeches.

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

Two opposite words are put together

Question 7

Dramatic irony

Answer 7

Understood by audience but not actors

Question 8

Why do characters switch from verse into prose?

Answer 8

Status, disguise, public, private,

Question 9

How to cite verse play

Question 10

How to quote verse vs prose

Question 11

Comic vision

Answer 11

PRAGMATIC WORLD - Day-to-day concerns
Concrete realities
BODY & DESIRES - Suffering is slapstick
PLAYFULLNESS & WIT - treats large portions of life as not p-so-serious. Characters resonate d with wit and imagination and cynicism.
COMPLEX - life is messy, unexpected, no right/wrong

Question 12

TITLE

Answer 12

Post-Christmas festival were societal norms and expectations fall apart. This is a time

Question 13

Lord of Misrule

Answer 13

Appointed official to run the Christmas party, rain lasted 12 days, mock Court
Wassailing going house to house to sing and receive wassail (cider/wine).
Mumming (disguise)
Twelfth night cake (bean is hidden and winner is lady of ,is rule.)
Opposers of the celebration was the Puritans, like Malvolio

Got came slice w/ coin. Sir Toby belch.
The holiday centers around disguises and the acceptance of being someone else for the night, similar to how Gil dresses up as someone she is not . Twelfh night centers around the characters’ own choices and how they are interpredted many ways, connecting to the part of what you will title because it is truly a time that centers around the individual where th on,y “will” that must be met is that of oneself.

Question 14

Green world

Answer 14

a visualization of the world of desire and the world that humanity tries to imitate (not an escape)

Shakespeare’s comedies: the action starts in the ordinary world, moves to an alternate “green” world where conflict is resolved, the action ends in the ordinary world
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will: Illyria is an example of the delirium and madness possible in the Green World