Characters
This character professes he will live a bachelor forever.
Who is Benedick?
Antonio mistakenly tells his brother this news.
What is that the Prince (Don Pedro) is going to ask Hero to marry him?
State 1 (of 4) reason that comedy lasts throughout time.
What is that it is a universal topic, it is adaptable, it relieves tension (cathartic), OR offers a way to connect?
Intentional misuse of a word for comic effect.
What is malapropism?
MAAN is categorized as this genre.
What is a comedy?
Leonatos daughter/marries Claudio
Who is Hero?
While the "boys" are pranking Benedick, they say that Beatrice will never admit to loving him because ___.
What is that Benedick will make a joke out of it or tease her because that's what he always does?
A gap between what the audience knows and what the character doesn't know.
What is (dramatic) irony?
"She speaks poiniards, and every word stabs," is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
MAAN was written between these dates.
What is 1598-1599?
________ proposes to Beatrice in Act II.
Who is Don Pedro?
Don John approaches Claudio at the masquerade and tells him this lie.
The term for a play on words and/or double meanings.
What is wordplay or pun?
Beatrice uses this literary device when she feels bad for Claudio upon finding out he's friends with Benedick, claiming that Benedick "...will hang upon him like a disease!"
What is a simile?
Which character speaks the most in MAAN?
Who is Benedick? (430 lines) (Don Pedro and Leonato technically have more lines, but Benedick speaks more words)
She is called "Lady Disdain"
Who is Beatrice?
These 2 characters talk in the orchard, knowing that Beatrice is eavesdropping, so they make up the rumor that Benedick loves Beatrice.
Who are Ursula and Hero?
A play that pokes fun at the behaviors of a social class.
What is a comedy of manners?
When Benedick and Beatrice's writings reveal they do love each other, Benedick exclaims, "Here's our own hands against our hearts." This is an example of _________.
What is a metonym? ("Hands" represents their writing and "hearts" represents their love.)
What is The Globe Theater?
Youthful, enthusiastic, immature, gullible war hero
Who is Claudio?
This character thinks up the rumor to spread that Hero has died rather than fainted.
Who is Friar Francis?
What is a story where everyone (except the villain) lives happily ever after?
"...by this time our sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter..." is an example of this comedic literary device.
What is a malaprop?
("Reformed" should be "informed.")
There are this many characters total in MAAN.
What is 21?