This type of play tells about the downfall of a noble character.
What is a tragedy?
100
This "character" does all of the "singing" in the first scene of the play.
What is the chorus?
100
Prunes are dried these.
What are plums?
100
Each one of the team members_____that practice helps to
achieve the best performance.
1. agree
2. agrees
3. use
4. uses
What is 2?
200
This first quality of a tragic hero is simple. We find out Oedipus satisfies it after reading the drama's title.
What is noble birth/high status?
200
A scene that should not be shown in the theater is called this.
What is obscene?
200
Quotes like "I Oedipus whom all men call the Great" clearly reveal this as Oedipus' hamartia?
What is Oedipus' hubris?
200
The Olympic Games began in 776 BC, took a long break, and reappeared in 1896 in this country.
What is Greece?
200
In the group of sentences below, the same idea is expressed in four different ways. Which sentence best expresses the idea?
1. A good writer in an uncommon way can express the commonplace.
2. A good writer who can express it in an uncommon way expresses the commonplace.
3. A good writer can express in an uncommon way, the commonplace.
4. A good writer is one who can express the commonplace in an uncommon way.
What is 4?
300
This is a tragic hero's epiphany/recognition.
What is anagnorisis?
300
Masks and strong lungs did this for ancient Greek actors.
What is amplify their voices?
300
These are aspects that occur repeatedly in a text. They are significant ideas that enhance the meaning of the text as a whole. They are not themes, technically.
What are motifs?
300
It's the densest planet in our solar system and the only one not named for a deity (god/goddess).
What is Earth?
300
A sight to inspire fear are wild animals on the lose.
1. Correct as is
2. are wild animals on the loose
3. is wild animals on the loose
4. is wild animals on the lose
What is 3?
400
If a character is going to be classified as a tragic hero, s/he has to--before dying--do this regarding his/her fate.
What is nobly accept one's fate?
400
Aesychlus and Sophocles innovated ancient Greek theater in these ways.
What is adding second and third characters?
400
This is the play's theme (we covered in class).
What is fate vs. free will?
400
It's the only 3-word state capital.
What is Salt Lake City?
400
Fix this sentence:
"Each of the members of the team are athletic."
What is "Each of the members of the team is athletic."
500
When Romeo impulsively kills Tybalt this is most clearly an example of which characteristic of an Aristotelian Tragic Hero? *not hamartia
What is peripeteia?
500
An emotional cleansing/when the audience has pity and fear towards the end of a tragedy is called this.
What is catharsis?
500
This is the cause of the plague in Thebes?
What is the death of King Laius?
500
According to the Oedipus Complex, what does every young boy desire? *two-part answer
What is sleep with his mother and murder his father?
500
Fix the following sentence:
"The selfie, which is a photograph taken by many narcissistic people, is extremely popular on various social networking websites."