Drama Quiz

Match the following terms to their definitions.

• The reader knows more information than the character.

• Verbal Irony

• We did not cover this term in class, so it cannot be a correct answer on the test.

• Dramatic Irony

• The outcome is different than the expectation.

• Poetic Irony

• A character made a statement with multiple meanings.

• Situational Irony

Identify the type of irony in the following example from The Crucible:

Salem treats Abigail like an innocent victim being attacked by evil people, when really Abigail is an evil person attacking innocent victims.

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Poetic Irony

Identify the type of irony in the following example from The Crucible

The audience knows Elizabeth must confirm John's confession of infidelity to prove Abigail is lying. However, as she is unaware John has confessed, she lies in an attempt to protect him.

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Poetic Irony

Identify the type of irony in the following example from The Crucible:

When she turns on John, Mary Warren tells him, "I'll not hang with you." Mary's statement sounds like she repents from serving the Devil with John, but her words also reveal her decision to stop helping John stand up to Abigail.

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Poetic Irony

Match the following types of figurative language to their definition.

• Attributing human characteristics to something that isn't human

• Metaphor

• A comparison of two things

• Simile

• A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• Personification

Match the following statements to the correct type of figurative language.

• Abigail Williams is as sneaky as a snake.

• Metaphor

• Elizabeth is a lamb.

• Simile

• The prison bars mocked the innocent John Proctor.

• Personification

​ (a)   is the intended audience emotion.

• Mood
• Tone
• Word Choice

Which emotion most accurately describes the mood of the following passage?

The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. No color at all, save for the neighboring trees and the grass of the surrounding fields. Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world.

• Mysterious

• Cheerful

• Hopeful

• Angry

Match the following fallacies to their definitions.

• When the speaker attacks her opponent as a person instead of arguing the topic

• Ad Hominem

• When the speaker goes off topic to distract the listener

• Red Herring

• When the speaker makes a generalization or assumption without enough evidence

• Hasty Generalization

A theme is a ​ (a)   that is a complete ​ (b)   , ​ (c)   to most people, and supported by evidence from the ​ (d)   .

• lesson
• sentence
• universal
• text