Poetry Terms
Drama Terms
Grammar
Cyrano
Cyrano
100
This type of rhyme occurs at the end of lines of poetry.
What is end rhyme?
100
This term is used when a character makes a brief, witty comment to the audience.
What is an aside?
100
A ______________ clause can be a sentence on its own.
What is an independent clause?
100
This is Cyrano's obvious flaw.
What is his nose?
100
This is Cyrano's official occupation in the play.
What is a soldier?
200
This type of rhyme looks like it should rhyme, but does not when read aloud.
What is eye rhyme?
200
True or false: the italicized words or words in parentheses in a play should be read aloud.
What is false?
200
An _________________ clause needs another clause to form a complete sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
200
This is the name of the man who steals Roxane from Cyrano.
What is Christian?
200
This is the reason why Cyrano is so able to write love letters and his un-official occupation in the play.
What is poet/playwright?
300
This type of rhyme is also known as half rhyme.
What is slant rhyme?
300
This term is used when a character in a play makes a long speech directly to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
300
This term is used for a sentence that is not complete: sentence ________________.
What is fragment?
300
The relationship between Cyrano and Roxanne is that they are: ___________.
What are cousins?
300
This is why Roxanne pretends she is coming to the war front (ie NOT to see her husband) and what she brings with her.
What is food?
400
This term is used when two lines of poetry (one right after the other) rhyme with eachother.
What is a couplet?
400
This is an example of something that usually happens at the end of a comedy play.
What is a wedding?
400
This term means a sentence that is too long and does not use proper punctuation: _________ sentence.
What is run-on?
400
Where does Roxanne spend the rest of her life after the war and the death of her husband?
What is in a convent?
400
This is the reason that Cyrano does not makes his feelings known on the war front, even though he realizes Roxane could love him.
What is Christian/Roxanne's husband dies.
500
This term is used when two words next to eachother have the same vowel sound.
What is assonance?
500
A play is divided in to 5 acts, and the acts are divided into smaller parts called: ____________.
What are scenes?
500
To be a complete sentence, a sentence must have a _________ and a verb.
What is a subject?
500
This is the country in which the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" is set.
What is France?
500
This is Roxanne's real/full name.
What is Madeleine Robin?
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