Show:
A Raisin in the Sun
Romeo and Juliet
Drama Terms
Poetry
Writing and Grammar
100
From whom are the Youngers awaiting a check?
The insurance company
100
What causes Friar Lawrence to go to the churchyard?
His message to Romeo was not delivered, so he has to help Juliet when she wakes.
100
A list of characters in a play
Dramatis personae
100
Repetition of the same stressed vowel sound as well as any consonant sounds that follow the vowel. Example: how, now, cow, brow.
Exact Rhyme
100
Which of the following is not a complete sentence? A) The dog ate his bone. B) Because the map was lacking an ocean. C) We ate. D) He signed the document.
C) We ate.
200
What does Ruth consider when she finds out that she is pregnant?
Having an abortion
200
What is the result of Friar Lawrence’s idea of having Juliet take the potion?
Romeo thinks she is dead, so he takes real poison.
200
Instructions that tell actors what to do
Stage Directions
200
Words in a poem are spelled the same but sound different or spelled differently but sound the same.
Slant rhyme
200
Which of the following is incorrect? A) He likes ice cream, she likes cake. B) He likes ice cream; she likes cake. C) He likes ice cream, and she likes cake. D) He likes ice cream. She likes cake.
A) He likes ice cream, she likes cake.
300
What does Mama buy with some of the insurance money?
A house
300
Earlier in Act V, Romeo believes that Juliet is dead, but the audience knows that she is still alive. What kind of irony does this most clearly illustrate?
Dramatic irony
300
A speech delivered by one person, or a long one-sided conversation
Monologue
300
When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
End Rhyme
300
Which statement about Lady Bird Johnson's White House Diary uses incorrect punctuation with a quotation? A) Lady Bird Johnson opens her account with these words: "It all began so beautifully." B) Lady Bird Johnson writes that "she thought the day began beautifully." C) Lady Bird Johnson tells us, "It all began so beautifully." D) "It all began so beautifully," Lady Bird Johnson begins.
B) Lady Bird Johnson writes that "she thought the day began beautifully."
400
Near the end of the play, what does Asagai leave Beneatha to think about?
Whether she will marry him and move to Africa
400
Which is the correct term for a pair of two lines that rhyme?
Couplet
400
A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage.
Aside
400
When a line of poetry has rhymes within or in the middle of the line.
Internal Rhyme
400
How should this sentence be corrected to create parallelism? Carlos and his cousin Manny like hiking, swimming, and they ride horses. A) Change hiking to to hike. B) Change swimming to they go swimming. C) Change they ride horses to riding horses. D) Remove his cousin.
C) Change they ride horses to riding horses.
500
Why did Lorraine Hansberry give her play the title A Raisin in the Sun?
The title comes from a line of a Langston Hughes poem about deferred dreams
500
In the end, whom or what do the others blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?
the foolish feud between the Montagues and Capulets
500
Which is the correct term for a long speech that a character gives while he or she is alone on stage?
Soliloquy
500
Poetry that tells a story is referred to as this style of poetry.
Narrative
500
What is the meaning of the idiom ground to a halt? A) lost speed and stopped B) forced someone to end an activity C) fell to earth and stopped D) crushed into a small space
A) lost speed and stopped