A230 Literature Exam Preparation Quiz

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For my own revision needs. But might be useful to other students on this Open University course.
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
What is an aside?
Respuesta
  • Where a character makes a remark that the audience can hear but no other characters can.
  • Where a character speaks their thoughts or emotions aloud alone onstage.
  • The opening lines of a scene.

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
What is blank verse?
Respuesta
  • Lines with no metre or rhythmical pattern.
  • Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter.
  • Another name for prose.

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
What is denouement?
Respuesta
  • The opposing force to a narrative's protagonist.
  • The final resolution of a play, novel or other narrative.
  • The beginning of a play where characters or information is introduced.

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
What is dramatic irony?
Respuesta
  • Where an audience or reader has information that a character is ignorant of.
  • When a character very obviously means the exact opposite to what they say.
  • When a play makes a reference to the real world outside the story.

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
What is exposition?
Respuesta
  • The opening section of a play where characters are introduced and essential information is imparted to the audience.
  • The event or character that the whole of the plot depends upon.
  • The final section of a play or other narrative where all the plot points are resolved.

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
What is hyperbole?
Respuesta
  • When a text foreshadows a future event.
  • Extravagant overstatement.
  • The last speech of a dying character in a drama.

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
What is proleptic irony?
Respuesta
  • When the audience has information that characters are ignorant of.
  • The foreshadowing of an event that will occur later in a play or other text.
  • When characters misunderstand each other and cause negative consequences.

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
What is a register?
Respuesta
  • The list of characters at the start of a published play text.
  • The type or style of language/vocabulary associated with a specific context.
  • The overall metrical pattern of a poem.

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
What is a soliloquy?
Respuesta
  • The two rhyming lines at the end of a scene in a play text.
  • A scene in a play where two characters converse in a back and forth dialogue.
  • A speech by a character alone onstage where he/she gives voice to emotions or thoughts.

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
What is verbal irony?
Respuesta
  • The sarcastic tone of voice used by an actor in a play or film.
  • Where the actual meaning of a text is different to the apparent meaning.
  • When a text foreshadows future events.

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
What is a focaliser?
Respuesta
  • The character through whose perspective or perceptions the narrative is described.
  • Phrases such as 'he said' or 'Daniel whispered' that signal who has spoken in a prose text.
  • The audience or reader of a literary text.

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
What is non-diegetic sound?
Respuesta
  • Repeated vowel sounds across a section of literary text.
  • The sound effects of a film. For example: doors shutting, background people talking etc.
  • Sound that is external to the story world of a film.

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
What is mise-en-scène?
Respuesta
  • The filmed events of a film such as costume, set design or character movement.
  • A genre of French poetry.
  • When the weather/climate of a literary text reflects the mood of a character.

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
What is diegetic sound?
Respuesta
  • Sound that is external to the story world of a film.
  • Sound that is inside the story world of a film.
  • The way iambic pentameter sounds when spoken out loud.
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