English Final (Sem 1)

• One of the major divisions of a play.

  Act
• The subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation?

  Scene
• A piece of dialogue intended for an audience, and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage?

  Aside
• One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions?

  Narrator
• Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative?

  Dialogue
• A long speech made by one person, often monopolizing a conversation?

  Monologue
• a literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative?

  Flashback
• hints at some thing yet to happen?

  Foreshadowing
• part of the script of a play, that tells the actors how they are to move or speak their lines?

  Stage directions
• A central idea in a piece of writing, or other work of art?

  Theme
• A dramatic or literary form of discourse, in which a character talks to himself or herself, or reveals his or her thoughts, without addressing a listener?


  Soliloquy
• One to whom secrets are entrusted?

  Confidante
• to prevent the success of?


  Foil
• anyone or anything against the main character?

  Antagonist
• The main character in the literary work?

  Protagonist
• drama or literary work, in which the main characters brought to ruin, or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or in ability to cope with on favorable circumstances?

  Tragedy
• A dramatic work that is light and often humerus in tone, and usually contains a happy resolution?

  Comedy
• when an audience watching a play, understands what’s going on in the situation while the characters in the play are unaware of it?

  Dramatic irony.
• The use of obvious and deliberate exaggeration?

  Hyperbole
• What’s the play begins, action goes in chronological order, and often action took place during one days time?

  Unity of time
• One setting for the whole performance (choice was important)?

  Unity of place
• considered the father of Greek drama, used the chorus and one actor on the stage?

  Thespis
• added a second actor on the stage with the chorus in the orchestra?

  Aeschylus
• added the third actor to the stage, still with the chorus?

  Sophocles
• The guy with the most lines?

  Protagonist
• The guy with the second most lines?

  Deuteragonist
• The guy with the third most lines (sometimes played many characters with one or two lines)?

  Tritagonist
• A person or thing that appears suddenly and unexpectedly to solve a problem.

  Deus ex machine
• Starting a story in the middle of the action; without backstory.

  In Medias res
• Excessive pride

  hubris
• refers to something or a person

  allusion
• told oedipus his dad died

  Messenger
• The man that took Oedipus as a baby

  Shepherd
• The father of Oedipus

  Laius
• Who saved Oedipus from death?

  shepherd
• Who is the first character that is introduced in the play?

  Oedipus
• Who and where did Oedipus send to find out why the city of Thebes was experiencing famine and death?

  Creon was sent to the Oracle of Apollo
• was there investigation immediately after the death of laius?

  No, they waited years later.
• what does the word Oedipus mean?

  Swollen Foot
• What is the setting of Oedipus?

  Thebes