Due 3/3 or 3/4-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 2/23 or 2/24

Open ended essay today, so prepare by reviewing character names and MOWAAW's.

Also, please read the short essay "Tragedy and the Common man" immediately after Death of a Salesman. Yes, I did forget to assign this to 4th period.

Due Thusday, 2/19 or Friday, 2/20

Finish reading Death of a Salesman.

Due 2/17 or 2/18

Read Act I of Death of a Salesman. (In textbook)

Due 2/12 or 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. Consider internal conflicts, motivations, desires, psychoanalysis...

Make sure to use direct quotations from the text to support your ideas.

Due 2/10 or 2/11

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

Due Friday 2/6 or Monday 2/9

Finish reading Tartuffe. Consider the importance of our late introduction to Tartuffe's character.

Due Wednesday/Thursday

Read Acts I and II of Tartuffe paying careful attention to satire.