Literature Exam 5VWO

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Literature Exam 5VWO

What is a prologue?

1. an aside heard by some actors but not by the audience.
2. the same as a soliloquy.
3. an opening speech which introduces the play or an act.
4. the final or closing speech in the play.

William Shakespeare made which theatre a historical landmark?

1. The Rose
2. The Curtain
3. The Swan
4. The Globe

Which statement is incorrect?
"The Globe was closed on numerous occasions, such as ..........."

1. debts
2. Puritans
3. prostitution
4. Bubonic plague

Write down as many Shakespeare plays as you can

Which novel is a typical, British gothic horror novel from the Victorian age?

1. Frankenstein
2. The Raven
3. Northanger abbey
4. The Satanist

At Lowood school , Mr Brocklehurst punishes Jane Eyre for the alleged sin of?

1. vanity
2. temper
3. lying
4. greed

Where did Mr. Rochester marry Bertha Mason?

1. Madeira
2. Jamaica
3. Costa Rica
4. Bermuda

Literary terms: the audience knows something that the characters in a play do not.

1. Euphemism
2. Soliloquy
3. Apostrophe
4. Dramatic Irony

A comparison is made between two things without the use of the words "like" or "as."

1. Metaphor
2. Onomatopoeia
3. Simile
4. Analogy

The hero or central character of a literary work.

1. flat character
2. round character
3. main character
4. protagonist

A reference in one literary work to another literary work.

1. Allusion
2. Analogy
3. Alliteration
4. Apostrophe

A character with only one dominant trait or aspect, such as greed or anger.

1. flat character
2. round character
3. static character
4. dynamic character

A character that changes during the course of a story.

1. flat character
2. round character
3. static character
4. dynamic character

"His tender heir might bear his memory"
This is an example of.....

1. enjambement
2. assonance
3. consonance
4. alliteration