used by actors to differentiate the characters they play.
masks
a situation in a movie or play when the audience has more knowledge than some other characters do.
Dramatic Irony
oldest surviving Greek drama.
The Persians
background information given at the beginning of a play that introduces the characters and the major conflict.
Prologue
an ancient Geek play by Sophocles about family and devotion.
Antigone
a group of people who dance, sing, and comment on the actions of a play.
Chorus
main subject of Sophocles’ “Theban” plays.
King Oedipus
___________ is a dramatic convention whereby a character overhears important information that other characters do not know.
Eavesdropping
The ___________ era of the Renaissance is the period in which playwrights could finally begin to diversify their subject matter.
Elizabthan
A(n) ___________ is a dramatic convention whereby one character speaks to the audience to reveal important information that other characters do not know.
An Aside
Ideas from other well-known works referred to in a piece of literature are called ___________?
Allusions
A comedy with nonsense and crude or improbable situations is called a(n) ___________?
Farce
An artistic movement forsaking the past and showing experimentation in new art forms is called ___________?
modern
A dramatic convention of a character making a speech expressing inner thoughts but not speaking to other characters on a stage is ___________?
a soliloquy
In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello, ___________ ruins Othello’s marriage.
Iago
A Russian realist writer and offer “The Proposal” is ___________.
Chekhov
“The Proposal” is about getting into a ___________?
marriage
“The Proposal” is a ___________ because it makes fun of a cultural expectation.
satire
The cultural setting of the book To Kill a Mocking Bird is ___________?
during the 1930s before the Civil Rights Act
Chapter 1-7 of To Kill a Mockingbird deal mainly with ___________?
children wondering about the mystery of Boo Radley
In the summers, the Finch children mostly ___________.
dramatize stories
Scout’s friend and neighbor mostly concerned about the beauty of her garden was ___________.
Miss Maudie
Scout wonders is Boo Radley is ___________.
Alive
Prejudice is ___________.
having an unjust or negative opinion about a group of people
