Unit 9 Flashcards
Scout wonders if Boo Radley is ___.
Alive
An artistic movement forsaking the past and showing experimentation in new art forms is called _____.
Modernism
Chapters 1–7 of To Kill a Mockingbird deal mainly with ___.
children wondering about the mysterious Boo Radley
“The Proposal” is a _____ because it makes fun of a cultural expectation.
Satire
The _____ era of the Renaissance is the period in which playwrights could finally begin to diversify their subject matter.
Elizabethan
“The Proposal” is about getting into a _____.
Marriage
Ideas from other well-known works referred to in a piece of literature are called _____.
Allusions
main subject of Sophocles’ “Theban” plays
King Oedipus
a group of people who dance, sing, and comment on the actions of the play
Chorus
an ancient Greek play by Sophocles about family devotion
Antigone
background information given at the beginning of a play that introduces the characters and the major conflict
Prologue
oldest surviving Greek drama
The Persians
a situation in a movie or play when the audience has more knowledge than some characters do
Dramatic irony
used by actors to differentiate the characters they play
Masks
_____ 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
Scout’s friend and neighbor mostly concerned about the beauty of her garden was ___.
Miss Maudie
Prejudice is ___.
having an unjust or negative opinion about a group of people
Racial segregation is ___.
separating people of different races or color
A dramatic convention of a character making a speech expressing inner thoughts but not speaking to other characters on stage is _____.
A soliloquy
In the summers, the Finch children mostly ___.
Dramatize stories
A comedy with nonsense and crude or improbable situations is called a(n) ______.
Farce
The cultural setting of the book To Kill a Mockingbird is ___.
during the 1930s before the Civil Rights Act
In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello, _____ ruins Othello’s marriage.
Lago
