Euripides - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Ritual - A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - Founder of greek tragedy. Most famous play=Agamemno Euripides - 3 great tragedians of classical g...

What is theatre? - Answer-Communication, subjective, live storytelling, conflict and resolution, education, course, transfer of information, entertainment, business, collaborative art form, interactive, building, holding mirror, scope (theatre of war), soapbox, human experience, opinion, place to see live performance, career, improvisation Theatre started with _____ first & _____ second - Answer-Greeks, Romans Greatest influence for western theatre - Answer-Greeks, Elizabethan Renaissance, ...

Quiz Bowl Literature Latest Update Graded A+ Camus Algerian author who wrote The Stranger, "The Rebel," and The Plague. Chaucer Author who wrote The Book of the Duchess, Canterbury Tales, and House of Fame. Paradise Lost Name this epic poem by John Milton that ends with with the first humans being exiled from the Garden of Eden. Milton This author was an English poet who wrote Paradise Lost and Areopagitica. Faulkner This American author wrote about a woman's murder in "A ...

4 Explain why Tiresias mentions that he serves Apollo (line 4). Make two points. [2] 5 Give the names of Oedipus’ mother and father (line 14). [2] 6 What is Cithaeron (line 20)? [1] 7 Give the name of one of Oedipus’ children (line 25). [1] 8 Explain how successfully Sophocles makes the scene in Source B an exciting piece of theatrical action. Make four points and support each point with reference to Source B. [8] 9* Assess how important you think the imagery of sight and blindness is...

CAMS Final Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Which letter identifies the orchestra in a Greek theater? - ANSWERSC What walks on four legs, two legs, and three legs? The Minotaur The Sphinx Mankind Dogs Maenads - ANSWERSMankind "Tragedy," which literally means "goat song," was from its inception an artistic form consisting of a small number or actors who interacted with a chorus. True False - ANSWERSFalse Which of the following men was most responsible for the dramatic A...

Creon was rashly accused of trying to overthrow his brother in law King Oedipus and was almost exiled because of it. correct answers true The Greek chorus for this play is made up of townspeople who appear to seek answers for the Plague which has overcome their city. correct answers true Theatre in Greece was highly competitive with intense contests for both playwrights and actors correct answers true Greek theatre regularly mocked those irrational lower class Greeks who still believed ...

CLC 106 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Ritual - Answer-A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Answer-Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Answer-Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Answer-Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Answer-Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - A...

Fifteenth and Sixteenth century Europe - correct answer -Uprising of criticism of organized religion because of the invention of the printing press and the widespread printing of the bible in the vernacular and not in Latin -Renaissance: 1) women became better educated and started writing and becoming artists 2) realism in painting -Transatlantic exploration -Humanist period of thought syntax - correct answer The way in which words are put together to form phrases semantics - corr...

Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)() - Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450. Early Dark Age(1250-900): - -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline. -Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over. -1250 marks Trojan war. Late Dark Age (900-750): - -Population growth and new trade. -800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy) Archaic (750-480) - -Rise of ...

Thea 201 Final Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Ethical reasoning consists of following the rules set out by moral and legal codes. False Justice-based ethics takes for granted that people are autonomous and independent from one another, while care-based ethics assumes that people are interconnected through relationships of dependence. True Match the Ancient Greek individual with the correct description. Pericles-Leader of Athens during The Golden Age of the fifth century...