Chapter 1 Test Review – Flashcards
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All sonnets follow the same rhythm pattern. T?F
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True
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The subjects of morality plays are usually abstractions.
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T
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Elizabethan costumes were elaborate.
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T
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Tragedy is intended to be depressing.
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F
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The only difference between an Elizabethan theater and today's theater is that the stage of the former jutted into the audience.
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F
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Shakespeare's English is classified as Middle English because it so closely resembles the English of the medieval period.
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F
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Shakespeare's wife
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Anne Hathaway
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introduced the printing press to England
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William Caxton
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wrote sonnets on religious themes
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Donne
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perfected the sonnet form in the country of its origin
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Petrarch
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created a rhyme scheme different from that used in the English or Italian sonnet
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Spencer
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addressed his poems to Stella
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Sidney
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wrote essays in an age of poetry
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Francis Bacon
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wrote 154 sonnets
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Shakespeare
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acting group to which Shakespeare belonged
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Kings men
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When dealing with poetry, the letters of the alphabet are used to indicate
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the rhyme scheme of a sonnet
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The approach to criticism that answers the question, "What did the writer say?"
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interpretation
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In determining a topic for a critical essay, the critic must first _____.
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narrow his topic to a manageable size
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The final disaster in a tragedy in which the hero is destroyed is called the
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catastrophe
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The event in a tragedy that initiates the rising action is called the
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exciting force
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How is a serious play with an unhappy ending classified?
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a tragedy
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The true validity and value of a critical essay is determined by detailed..
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evidence
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A character in a play provides the most truthful revelation about himself when the playwright has him speak in a(n
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soliloquy
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Shakespeare's plays can be classified into what three categories?
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histories, tragedies, and comedies
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When someone says that a sonnet has "fourteen lines of iambic pentameter," what does that mean?
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There are fourteen lines with five sets of unstressed and stressed syllables.
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Who is the first character to die during the play Hamlet?
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Polonius
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The exciting force in Hamlet is _____.
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the appearance of the Ghost to Hamlet
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The climax in Hamlet occirs when _____.
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Hamlet misses the opportunity to kill Claudius
