English long quiz

• Tone

  Attitude or approach of the author character that gives the general atmosphere
• Mood

  Authors attitude or approach towards his her work
• Mood

  Emotion provoked in the reader
• Foreshadowing

  Hints about events that will happenlater
• Writers deliberately "plant" objects or events and use it again as an essential tool for the story
• The world of theater began not as a literary genre but as a ritual sorts by ancient theater
• Aristotle (384-322 BC)

  A greek philosopher and scientists was the most important figure in Greek dramatic criticism
• Aristotle

  Analyzed plays and classified the kinds of drama that led to construction of tragedy
• It's purpose as it to

  to teach

  Entertain

  Influence

  Empower
• Sophocles (496-406 BC)

  Known for his play Oedipus king
• William Shakespeare

  Considered as the greatest dramatist as he captured through his plays the complete range of human emotions
• It's origins transcends in Elizabethan england
• English literature

  Has developed and evolved into different forms
• Mystery plays

  Dramatisations of bible stories especially the life and death of jesus Chris in churches as tableaux
• The York mystery composed of fourty-eight mystery plays or pagents that retell stories from creation to las judgement
• The York mystery play were performed mid fourteenth century until 1569
• The York mystery play were traditionally staged in the feast day of Corpus Christi
• Plot arrangement of parts is considered as the soul of the play as it holds the story
• Character

  Mover of the play
• Thought

  Idea or theme that the play focuses on
• Diction

  Also called language
• Diction

  This reals the characters,themes and ideas this establishes mood and tone
• Music

  Comprised of the melody

  Us of sounds
• Spectacle

  Visual elements that deals with scene
• Excerpts from the tragedy of Macbeth

  Full length play that revolves around Macbeth
• William Shakespeare

  Wrote several plays during his lifetime
• Macbeth

  Written as tragedy
• Tragedy

  Type of drama in which the character undergoes morally significant struggle
• Two important factors in tragedy

  Role of chance or fate

  Hero's tragic flaw
• Closet drama

  Written for reading that to be performed onstage
• One example of a closet drama

  John Milton's Samson Agonites
• Explicit

  Clearly expressed
• Implicit

  If not clearly stated
• Tennessee Williams


  American playwright, author of The Glass Menagerie
• Tennessee Williams born in Columbus, Mississippi


  March 26, 1911
• The Glass Menagerie opened

  March 31, 1945
• Shirley Jackson


  American short story writer and novelist, author of "The Lottery"
• Shirley Jackson's lifespan

  December 14, 1916 - August 1965
• "The Lottery" first published

  June 26, 1942
• John Collier


  British novelist and screenwriter, known for his work in the 1920s and 1930s