One Last Shot at Glossary Terms
Missing Persons
Say What?
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Interlocutors
100
Waiting for Godot abandons this aspect of conventional dramatic form
What is plot?
100
KING: _____ was your father dear to you? Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart?”
Who is Laertes?
100
This character says this line: “He rips off her brooches, the long gold pins holding her robes—and lifting them high, looking straight up into the points, he digs them down the sockets of his eyes, crying “You, you’ll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused!”
Who is the messenger?
100
The missing word in the following: LADY CROOM: You surely do not supply a hermitage without a _____.
What is "hermit"?
100
This character says this to Oedipus: “Stop—in the name of god, if you love your own life, call off this search! My suffering is enough.”
Who is Jocasta?
200
The fact that Oedipus curses the murderer of Laius is an example of this.
What is dramatic irony?
200
HANNAH: You haven’t established it was fought. You haven’t established it was Byron. For God’s sake, _____, you haven’t established Byron was even here!
What is Bernard?
200
This character says this line: “He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass green turf, At his heels a stone.”
Who is Ophelia?
200
The missing word in the following: JACK: No _____, no dinner.
What is "bath"?
200
This character says this to Septimus: “Mr. Hodge, ignorance should be like an empty vessel waiting to be filled at the well of truth—not a cabinet of vulgar curios.”
Who is Lady Croom?
300
Hamlet experiences one of these when the ghost tells him about the murder
What is a recognition?
300
SYL: You’re getting paranoid, _____.
Who is Albert?
300
This character says this line: “Yes yes, you have been correct. SO that I ask myself is there anything I can do in my turn for these honest fellows who are having such a dull, dull time.”
Who is Pozzo?
300
VLADIMIR: You’d make me _____ if it wasn’t prohibited.
What is "laugh"?
300
This character says this to Estragon: “There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”
Who is Vladimir?
400
Hubris might be Oedipus'; indecisiveness might be Hamlet’s
What is a fatal flaw?
400
OEDIPUS: I acted at once. I sent _____, my wife’s own brother, to Delphi— Apollo the Prophet’s oracle—to learn What I might do or say to save our city.
Who is Creon?
400
This character says this line: “You can read my mind, all right, I’ll give you that. You cannot make my mind up.”
Who is Christie?
400
TIRESIAS: How terrible—to see the truth when the truth is only _____to him who sees!
What is "pain"?
400
This character says this to Hamlet: “O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn’st my very eyes into my soul. And there I see such black grained spots as will leave there their tinct.”
Who is Gertrude?
500
Arcadia takes place in the same “particular” one of these, but in two different “overall” ones
What is setting?
500
VLADIMIR: Will you not play? ESTRAGON: Play at what? VLADIMIR: We could play at _____ and Lucky.
Who is Pozzo?
500
This character says this line: “There wasn’t enough time before. There weren’t enough pencils! This took her I don’t know how many days and she hasn’t scratched the paintwork. Now she’d only have to press a button, the same button over. Iteration.”
Who is Valentine?
500
The missing word in the following: HAMLET: The play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the _____ of the king.”
What is "conscience"?
500
This character says this to Syl: “You wouldn’t earn as much as I do. There’s no work. There’s nothing you’re trained for. You’re lucky I’m still in work so you’re getting supported.”
Who is Albert?
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