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Question 1
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What is an aside?
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Where a character makes a remark that the audience can hear but no other characters can.
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Where a character speaks their thoughts or emotions aloud alone onstage.
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The opening lines of a scene.
Question 2
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What is blank verse?
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Lines with no metre or rhythmical pattern.
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Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Another name for prose.
Question 3
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What is denouement?
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The opposing force to a narrative's protagonist.
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The final resolution of a play, novel or other narrative.
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The beginning of a play where characters or information is introduced.
Question 4
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What is dramatic irony?
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Where an audience or reader has information that a character is ignorant of.
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When a character very obviously means the exact opposite to what they say.
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When a play makes a reference to the real world outside the story.
Question 5
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What is exposition?
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The opening section of a play where characters are introduced and essential information is imparted to the audience.
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The event or character that the whole of the plot depends upon.
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The final section of a play or other narrative where all the plot points are resolved.
Question 6
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What is hyperbole?
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When a text foreshadows a future event.
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Extravagant overstatement.
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The last speech of a dying character in a drama.
Question 7
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What is proleptic irony?
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When the audience has information that characters are ignorant of.
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The foreshadowing of an event that will occur later in a play or other text.
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When characters misunderstand each other and cause negative consequences.
Question 8
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What is a register?
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The list of characters at the start of a published play text.
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The type or style of language/vocabulary associated with a specific context.
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The overall metrical pattern of a poem.
Question 9
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What is a soliloquy?
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The two rhyming lines at the end of a scene in a play text.
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A scene in a play where two characters converse in a back and forth dialogue.
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A speech by a character alone onstage where he/she gives voice to emotions or thoughts.
Question 10
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What is verbal irony?
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The sarcastic tone of voice used by an actor in a play or film.
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Where the actual meaning of a text is different to the apparent meaning.
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When a text foreshadows future events.
Question 11
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What is a focaliser?
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The character through whose perspective or perceptions the narrative is described.
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Phrases such as 'he said' or 'Daniel whispered' that signal who has spoken in a prose text.
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The audience or reader of a literary text.
Question 12
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What is non-diegetic sound?
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Repeated vowel sounds across a section of literary text.
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The sound effects of a film. For example: doors shutting, background people talking etc.
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Sound that is external to the story world of a film.
Question 13
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What is mise-en-scène?
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The filmed events of a film such as costume, set design or character movement.
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A genre of French poetry.
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When the weather/climate of a literary text reflects the mood of a character.
Question 14
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What is diegetic sound?
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Sound that is external to the story world of a film.
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Sound that is inside the story world of a film.
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The way iambic pentameter sounds when spoken out loud.
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