Due Monday 2/28

Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

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, blank verse

Test format:

90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)

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

Due 2/22

Read the brief essay Tragedy and the Comman man by Arthur Miller (in your text book.) Ponder this.

Select 5 quotations from the end of Death of a Salesman that are significant and show characters coming to realizations or struggling to come to realizations. You will most likely not need to turn this in.

Finally review your characters, plot references, and MOWAAWS from your plays to be prepared to write an open ended essay.

Due 2/17

Please finish reading Death of a Salesman. Also acknowledge the long-awaited syllabus posted on the right side bar for the drama, novel, and test prep unit.

Due 2/11

Finish reading a Doll's House.

Then, choose from Nora, Helmer, Rank, Krogstand, or Kristine and write a 2 page character analysis. Consider internal conflicts, motivations, desires, psychoanalysis...

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

Due 2/9

Read Acts I and II of A Doll's House (in textbook.) I recommend also reading the page of background preceding the play.

Due 2/3

Read Acts I-III of Tartuffe (in your big red book). Pay special attention to satire, elements of Neoclassical reason, and characterization.