UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM TEST (QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS)2024/2025

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM TEST (QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS)2024/2025 According to the essay "Ancient Athenian Drama," before the invention of tragedy there were contests in which rhapsodes recited parts of what works of literature? - CORRECT ANSWER-Homer's Iliad and Odyssey What did Aeschylus supposedly call his own work? - CORRECT ANSWER-"Slices from the feast of Homer" What does the essay say about the entrances and exits of characters in Greek drama? - CORRECT ANSWER-To the left or right of the stage, or through the doors of the building. Entrances and exits were important in Greek drama because they took a long time How many characters are usually engaged in dialogue in an ancient Athenian play? - CORRECT ANSWER-Very few, usually only two or three, and a chorus. The actors usually had to play more than one part What is an agon? - CORRECT ANSWER-"Contest" or "struggle." Characters go back and forth making long, logical, legalistic speeches What is stichomythia? - CORRECT ANSWER-"Line speech." Characters speak single lines back and forth What does the Chorus often represent? - CORRECT ANSWER-Usually a group of inhabitants in the place where the story is set. Ordinary people In a Greek drama, where does killing (and other violence) usually take place? - CORRECT ANSWER-Usually off-stage. "Dead" bodies are usually displayed on stage What is the purpose of the "messenger speech"? - CORRECT ANSWER-Low, vivid, blow-by-blow accounts of offstage disasters so the audience can imagine the events According to the essay about Euripides, who were the Sophists and what is "sophia"? - CORRECT ANSWER-Men from other societies who came to teach "cleverness" or "wisdom" -- sophia According to the myth about Jason, in what ways did Medea save Jason's life? - CORRECT ANSWER-Enabling him to plow the field, lull the dragon to sleep, steal the fleece, and escape back to Greece after killi