WorksheetsR&J Literary & Character Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A literary composition involving conflict, action, crisis, and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before an audience.
a)
comedy
b)
tragedy
c)
history
d)
drama
2.
A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better. In comedy, things work out happily in the end.
a)
comedy
b)
tragedy
c)
drama
d)
history
3.
A type of drama which presents readers with a story that takes place during a notable period in history, and usually during a significant event in that period.
a)
comedy
b)
tragedy
c)
history
d)
drama
4.
A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse (catastrophe and suffering await the heroes).
a)
comedy
b)
tragedy
c)
history
d)
drama
5.
Usually the main character, someone who is nobly born, who may have great influence in his or her society, and has a weakness.
a)
tragic flaw
b)
tragedy
c)
protagonist
d)
antagonist
6.
A humorous scene, incident or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity.
a)
comic flaw
b)
comic relief
c)
comic error
d)
comic tragedy
7.
A brief reference to something outside of the story that the reader or audience is expected to know.
a)
illusion
b)
allusion
c)
inclusion
d)
allure
8.
A character whose personality or attitude are sharp in contrast to those of another character in the same story to highlight character traits and attitude.
a)
foil
b)
fiol
c)
fowl
d)
flow
9.
Devices that theater audiences accept as realistic, even though they do not necessarily reflect the way real-life people behave.
a)
literary devices
b)
dramatic devices
c)
dramatic connections
d)
dramatic conventions
10.
A speech that a character gives when he or she is alone on stage. Its purpose is to let the audience know what the character is thinking.
a)
scene
b)
soliloquy
c)
drama
d)
act
11.
A character’s remark, either to the audience or to another character, that others on stage are not supposed to hear.
a)
aside
b)
inside
c)
otherside
d)
secrets
12.
Written instructions about how the actors are to move and behave in a play.
a)
aside
b)
curtain calls
c)
stage directions
d)
stage left
13.
A form of poetry that uses unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
a)
blank verse
b)
iambic pentameter
c)
iambic octometer
d)
free verse
14.
Five lines of unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable.
a)
iambic pentameter
b)
free verse
c)
blank verse
d)
iambic centimeter
15.
The setting of "Romeo & Juliet."
a)
Vernona, Italy
b)
Verona, Spain
c)
Veritha, France
d)
Violente, Ireland
16.
The son of Lord and Lady Montague. He falls in love with Juliet Capulet at a masquerade. He seems to be in love with being in love.
a)
Romeo
b)
Benvlio
c)
Prince Escalus
d)
Mercutio
17.
The nephew of Lord Montague and friend of Romeo.
a)
Prince Escalus
b)
Benvolio
c)
Mercutio
d)
Count Paris
18.
Juliet Capulet
a)
The young 10 year old girl who falls in love with Romeo Montague at a masquerade.
b)
The young 13 year old girl who falls in love with Romeo Montague at a masquerade.
c)
The young 13 year old boy who falls in love with Romeo Montague at a masquerade.
d)
The young 13 year old girl who falls in love with Romeo Capulet at a masquerade.
19.
The woman who Juliet turns to for advice. She tries to encourage Juliet to do as her parents wish and marry Paris.
a)
Lady Capulet
b)
Lady Montague
c)
The Nurse
d)
The Nanny
20.
Mercutio
a)
A kinsmen to Prince Escalus and a friend of Romeo.
b)
Benvolio's cousin and court jester.
c)
A kind man who wants to marry Juliet.
d)
A friend to Juliet and cousin to Romeo who wants to make everyone happy all the time.
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