Intro to Literature - Drama Test

Susan Glaspell

Author of “Trifles”

Arthur Miller

Author of “Death of a Salesman”

Christopher Marlowe

Author of “Doctor Faustus”

Tennessee Williams

Author of “The Glass Menagerie”

Jane Martin

Author of “Beauty”

August Wilson

Author of “Fences”

William Shakespeare

Author of “Hamlet”

Trifles

What play does this summary match?

A murder took place and a group of detectives and two women are trying to solve the mystery. The women find and keep the evidence.

The women solve the mystery by looking at the bird’s neck

What is the climax of “Trifles”?

The women questioning whether they should help Mrs. Wright or do what is legally right

What is the central struggle in “Trifles”?

Will the women tell the men of the evidence? Will the men find the motive of the murder?

What is the dramatic question of “Trifles”?

Death of a Salesman

What play does the summary match with?

A man’s slow decline as he struggles through the American Dream and family dysfunction.

Meaning in the little things

What is the main theme of “Trifles”

Stealing of the pen

What was the crisis moment in “Death of a Salesman”?

stockings, stolen items, UVA shoes

Name a few of the symbolism found in “Death of a Salesman”.

Is the American dream fully achievable?

What is the dramatic question of “Death of a Salesman”?

Failure of the American dream, actions have consequences

What are the main 2 themes of “Death of a Salesman”?

Soliloquy

This is a speech in a play in which a character speaks to himself or herself (and the audience) while alone on stage, revealing inner thoughts, feelings, or decisions.

Aside

This is a short comment made by a character directly to the audience that other characters do not hear. This is used to reveal private thoughts of commentary.

Stage business

This is physical action, gesture, or movements of characters on stage that engage the audience, complement the dialogue and help convey meaning, mood, or character.

Tragedy

This dramatic genre is where the protagonist of high status or noble character suffers a downfall leading to a catharsis of pity and fear in the audience.

Comedy

This is a dramatic genre that typically orients towards amusement, often ending happily and often deals with people in everyday situations.

High comedy

This type of comedy emphasizes wit, sophisticated dialogue, clever situations, and character rather than action. It often targets manners or class and appeals more to intellect and social awareness than physical humor.

Low comedy

This type of comedy emphasizes physical humor, slapstick, buffoonery, visual gags and often less concerned with subtlety and more with immediate laughter and comic anitcs.

Tragic flaw

This is a character defect of the tragic hero that leads to the reversal of fortune and ultimately the hero’s downfall.

Hubris

This is excessive pride, arrogance, and over-confidence that often precipitates the tragic hero’s error and downfall.

Realism

This is a theatrical movement that seeks to depict life as it is. It rejects artifice and theatrical exaggeration.

Naturalism

This is an extension or intensification of realism in theatre/drama which emphasizes deterministic views of human behavior. It presents characters as victims of social, economic, or biological forces.

Comic relief

This is an element of drama in which a humorous dialogue is inserted to relieve the tension or provide a break from intensity.

Dr. Faustus

What play does this summary match?

A brilliant scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

Will Faustus repent and save his soul or will his pride and desire for power damn him?

What is the dramatic question of “Dr. Faustus”?

Faustus realizes what he’s done

What is the climax of “Dr. Faustus”?

good and evil angels, refusal to repent, dismissal of theology

What are some foreshadowing concepts in “Dr. Faustus”?

Faustus’s internal battle between repentance and ambition

What is the central struggle of “Dr. Faustus”?

Overreaching ambition and limits of human knowledge

What is a theme of “Dr. Faustus”?

Pressure on Tom to support the family and care for Laura.

What is the central struggle in “The Glass Menagerie”?

Jim isn’t the savior and tells Amanda he’s engaged

What is the climax of “The Glass Menagerie”?

Unicorn

What is a symbolic part of “The Glass Menagerie”?

Societal standards, grim outlook on life, American dream out of reach

What is the central struggle of “Fences”?

Will Corry escape Troy’s shadow?

What is the dramatic question of “Fences”?

Inability to take decisive action, treatment of Ophelia, madness real/feigned

What are the 3 main problems in Hamlet?

Will hamlet avenge his father/s murder?

What is the dramatic question of “Hamlet”?

Hamlet kills Polonius

What is the climax of “Hamlet”?

Hamlet’s internal conflict

What is the central struggle of “Hamlet”?

Mrs. Peters

Who said these quotes?"

The law has got to punish crime, Mrs. Hale.

Mrs. Hale

Who said the quote?

I wish I’d come over here once in a while. That was the crime.

I know how things can be for women. We live close together and far apart.

Linda

Who said the quote?

We’re free.

Dr. Faustus

Who said the quote?

I think Hell is a fable.

Mephistopolys

Who said the quote?

What I wouldn’t do to obtain his soul.

Amanda

Who said the quote?

All pretty girls are a trap and all men expect them to be.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

Carla/Bethany

Who said the quote?

Different problems

Jim Bono

Who said the quote?

Some people build fences to keep people out. Others build to keep people in.

Rose

Who said the quote?

I planted my hopes and dreams into you for it to grow. Didn’t take long to realize the soil was rock hard and nothing was going to grow.

Sometimes when he touched, he bruised. Sometimes when he took me in his arms he cut.

Polonius

Who said the quote?

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day

Hamlet

Who said this quote?

It will not speak. Then I will follow it.

Horatio

Who said the quote?

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?

Marcellus

who said the quote?

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Ghost

Who said the quote?

Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.

Hamlet

Who said the quote?

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on that you at such times seeing me, never shall, with arms encumbered thus, or this headshake, or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase as “well, we know” or “we could, an if we would.”

Hamlet

Who said this quote?

The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.

King

Who said this quote?

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go

Hamlte

Who said this quote?

My words fly up my words to heaven go.

Queen

Who said this quote?

This man shall set me packing. Mad as the sea and wind when both contend

Hamlet

Who said the quote?

My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!