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A __________ play is one that is written to dramatize the life of an important person, event, or both.
What is historical?
Setting
What is the location or situation in time, space and culture, which forms the background for a work of literature?
The location or situation in time, space and culture, which forms the background for a work of literature
What is the setting?
A Comedy
What is a genre that depicts flawed characters who nevertheless grow, are redeemed, and/or triumph?
A play written to dramatize the life of an historical figure, event, or both.
What is a Historical Play?
A tragedy is a genre that deals with the downfall of human beings, caused by their _____ and wrong ______, and often by the work of their enemies as well.
What are flaws and choices?
Sonnet
A genre that depicts flawed characters who nevertheless grow, are redeemed, and/or triumph
What is comedy?
Historical Play
What is a play written to dramatize the life of an historical figure, event, or both?
The selection, arrangement, and presentation of information by an author about characters
What is Characterization?
Iambic Pentameter is a poetic line made of up ________ iambic feet, resulting in a total of ____ syllables, with all the even-numbered syllables stressed and the odd ones unstressed.
What is five and ten?
Iambic Pentameter
What is a poetic line made up of five iambic feet, resulting in ten syllables, with all the even-numbered syllables stressed and the odd ones unstressed?
A pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables, which can be arranged in different groupings to create different poetic meters
What is a foot?
What is a genre that deals with the downfall of human beings, caused by their flaws and wrong choices, and often by the work of their enemies as well?
A poem composed of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, with a set pattern of rhymes
What is a sonnet?
A foot is a pattern of ________ or ___________ syllables, which can be arranged in different groupings to create different poetic meters.
What is stressed and unstressed?
Allusion
What is a reference to historical figures or events, fictional character, places, or other things that the author assumes the reader will know or understand?
A speech given in drama, when character speak their thoughts aloud while alone on stage, thereby communicating their thoughts, mental state, intentions, and motives to the audience
What is a soliloquy?
Characterization
What is the selection, arrangement, and presentation of information by an author about characters?
A genre that deals with the downfall of human beings, caused by their flaws and wrong choices, and often by the work of their enemies as well.
What is a tragedy?
An allusion refers to historical figures, events, fictional characters, places, or other things that the author _______ the ________ will know and understand.
What is assumes and reader?
Soliloquy
What is a speech given in drama, when character speak their thoughts aloud while alone on stage, thereby communicating their thoughts, mental state, intentions, and motives to the audience?
A poetic line made up of five iambic feet, resulting in ten syllables, with all the even-numbered syllables stressed and the odd ones unstressed.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Foot
What is a pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables, which can be arranged in different groupings to create different poetic meters?
A reference to historical figures or events, fictional character, places, or other things that the author assumes the reader will know or understand
What is allusion?