Shakespearean Drama

What is a tragic hero?

• The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist

• The protagonist, or central character

• A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character

• A speech given by a character alone

What is an antagonist?

• The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist

• The protagonist, or central character

• A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character

• A speech given by a character alone

What is a foil?

• The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist

• The protagonist, or central character

• A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character

• A speech given by a character alone

What is a soliloquy?

• The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist

• The protagonist, or central character

• A character's remark that others on stage do not hear

• A speech given by a character alone

What is an aside?

• The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist

• When the audience knows more than the characters

• A character's remark that others on stage do not hear

• A speech given by a character alone

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is comic relief?

• A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension

• When the audience knows more than the characters

• A character's remark that others on stage do not hear

• A speech given by a character alone

What is a Shakespearean Tragedy?

• A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension

• A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters that provide comic moments that counter the underlying tension of the serious plot.

• A character's remark that others on stage do not hear

• A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters

What is allusion?

• A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension

• A reference to a literary or historical person or event that the audience is expected to know.

• Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, a meter that contains five unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable.

• A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters

What is a blank verse?

• A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension

• Humor resulting from words with similar sound and different meanings.

• A character's remark that others on stage do not hear

• Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter