Due 3/3 Drama Test

Here is a guideline for studying:

Drama Test Study Guide


Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 Authors of all of the plays
 All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)

 Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony

 Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Hubris, harmartia, peripeteia, epiphany, catharsis, stichomythia
o Aristotle and Aristotelian Unities (Time, location, plot)
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles

 Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings foil

Test format:

90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)

 20 True/False Questions
 5 even timeline questions for each play
 Quotations identification
 Term identification

Due 2/28

Finish reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Due 2/26

Read Act I of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Remember, you will have to pick this book up from the library.

2/20

Finish Death of a Salesman.

Due 2/15

Read Act I of Death of a Salesman.

Due 2/13

Finish reading a Doll's House.

Then, choose from Nora, Helmer, Rank, Krogstand, or Kristine and write a 1 1/2 to 2 page character analysis.

Due 2/11

Read A Doll's House, Acts I and II.

(If you were absent on 2/7, you will need to make up a writing activity).

Due 2/7

Tartuffe Satire Reflection Paper

You will be writing a reflection paper on the use of satire in Tartuffe. Remember, a reflection paper does not require a specific essay structure, but still should be written in a formal, academic voice.

Consider and discuss some of the things that Moliere satirizes in Tartuffe. What does the author criticize during the course of the play? How does he create satire? What lets the audience know it is satire?

Your reflection paper should be 1 1/2 - 2 doubled spaced pages.

Due 2/5

Read Tartuffe which is in your big red book. Please read the background information included on pages 1059-1060.

You are completing the reading of the entire play to help get us caught up (at least a little caught up) from the snow days.

If you have forgotten your book, here is a link to a version online (although it's not as good as the one in your book.)