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Romeo and Juliet Background/Drama Terms

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Shakespeare was born in…

a)

1564

b)

1216

c)

1776

d)

1992

2.

Shakespeare’s plays include…

a)

Comedies

b)

Histories

c)

Tragedies

3.

Shakespeare’s plays were performed in a theatre called the…

a)

Sphere

b)

Circle

c)

Globe

d)

Amphitheatre

4.

Female roles in Shakespeare’s plays, during Shakespeare’s time, were played by…

a)

Young women

b)

Young men

5.

In Shakespeare’s day, marriages were often set up by ____________ created by parents

a)

Lotteries

b)

Competitions

c)

Contracts

d)

Random selections

6.

a play for theater, radio, or television

a)

Protagonist

b)

Exposition

c)

Drama

d)

Climax

7.

the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

a)

Antagonist

b)

Denouement

c)

Motif

d)

Protagonist

8.

a condition in which a person experiences a clash of opposing wishes or needs

a)

Exposition

b)

Conflict

c)

Catharsis

d)

Climax

9.

the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved

a)

Conflict

b)

Denouement

c)

Catharsis

d)

Hamartia

10.

the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex

a)

Drama

b)

Motif

c)

Hamartia

d)

Climax

11.

the part of a play or work of fiction in which the background to the main conflict is introduced

a)

Exposition

b)

Climax

c)

Denouement

d)

Conflict

12.

a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine

a)

Catharsis

b)

Hamartia

c)

Motif

d)

Antagonist

13.

a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition

a)

Catharsis

b)

Motif

c)

Denouement

d)

Hamartia

14.

the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions

a)

Catharsis

b)

Climax

c)

Denouement

d)

Motif

15.

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

a)

Protagonist

b)

Conflict

c)

Antagonist

d)

Climax