Midterm Review. Character who serves as a contrast to another character.

Midterm Review

• Character who serves as a contrast to another character

• Foil

• Thing belonging to another period other than that in which it exists

•Anachronism

• Play in which the main character is brought to ruin

• Tragedy

• Line made up of 10 syllables (5 stressed, 5 unstressed)

• Iambic pentameter

• Long speech expressing private thoughts while alone on stage

• soliloquy

• Story intended to be acted out in front of an audience.

•Drama

• Long speech spoken by a character while others are on stage

•Monologue

• A serious character weakness that causes a downfall

• Tragic flaw

Medea Review

•Who is the chorus composed of?

• townswomen

•Who is Medea’s divine ancestor?

•Hyperion

• How does Jason betray Medea?

•Abandons her•Marries another woman•Denies she helped him gain

his quest

• How does Glauce die?

•poison

• Aegeus is king of _________________.

• Athens

• How did Jason earn his fame as an adventurer?

•Rescued the Golden Fleece

• The play is set in _________________.

•Corinth

Julius Caesar Review

•Who persuades Caesar to stay home?

•Calphurnia

•Why does Brutus compare Caesar to a newly hatched serpent?

•Could become a tyrant

•Who tries to warn Caesar not to go to the Senate by trying to give him a letter?

•Artemidorous

•Who said “Cowards die many times before their deaths;/ The valiant never taste of death but once.”

•Caesar

•Who said, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

•Brutus