ENGL 112L – Old Dominion University – Final Exam Part 2
Study Guide
Tragedy - correct answer ✔✔ a play portraying a serious conflict between humans and a
superior force; it ends sorrowfully.
Tragic hero - correct answer ✔✔ (a) a person of high esteem; noble; respected (b) he falls from
power or happiness (c) his downfall is a result of his own tragic flaw (hamartia).
Catharsis - correct answer ✔✔ purgation; feelings of emotional release of "pity and fear;" a
calm the spectator feels at the end of a tragedy.
Script - correct answer ✔✔ text of play
Cothurni - correct answer ✔✔ high thick elevated shoes.
Exodus - correct answer ✔✔ last scene; exit; resolution
Prologue - correct answer ✔✔ opening speech or dialogue of a play; usually gives exposition
Hamartia - correct answer ✔✔ "some error or frailty" that brings about misfortune for a tragic
hero (lead to the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy); interpreted as internal weakness or
referred to as a controlled or uncontrolled mistake; "error" Greek; an offense committed in
ignorance of some material fact.
Hubris - correct answer ✔✔ excessive pride.
, Reversal - correct answer ✔✔ the point in a story when the protagonist's fortunes turn in an
unexpected direction.
Recognition - correct answer ✔✔ the moment of recognition that occurs when ignorance gives
way to knowledge.
Playwright - correct answer ✔✔ writers who make plays
Fixed form - correct answer ✔✔ it follows a prescribed pattern such as a sonnet
open form (free verse) - correct answer ✔✔ (from the French "vers libre"); does not conform to
an established pattern of meter, rhyme, and stanza.
Stanza - correct answer ✔✔ the groupings of lines, set off by a space, usually with a set pattern
of meter and rhyme
Couplet - correct answer ✔✔ two line stanza.
Quatrain - correct answer ✔✔ four line stanzas (the most common stanzas)
Sonnet - correct answer ✔✔ a popular literary form in English since the 16th century, adopted
from the Italian sonnet meaning "little song."
Rhyme - correct answer ✔✔ a way of creating sound patterns
Onomatopoeia - correct answer ✔✔ the use of a word that resembles the sound of the word
that it denotes (ex. quack, bang, rattle, buzz, burp)
Study Guide
Tragedy - correct answer ✔✔ a play portraying a serious conflict between humans and a
superior force; it ends sorrowfully.
Tragic hero - correct answer ✔✔ (a) a person of high esteem; noble; respected (b) he falls from
power or happiness (c) his downfall is a result of his own tragic flaw (hamartia).
Catharsis - correct answer ✔✔ purgation; feelings of emotional release of "pity and fear;" a
calm the spectator feels at the end of a tragedy.
Script - correct answer ✔✔ text of play
Cothurni - correct answer ✔✔ high thick elevated shoes.
Exodus - correct answer ✔✔ last scene; exit; resolution
Prologue - correct answer ✔✔ opening speech or dialogue of a play; usually gives exposition
Hamartia - correct answer ✔✔ "some error or frailty" that brings about misfortune for a tragic
hero (lead to the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy); interpreted as internal weakness or
referred to as a controlled or uncontrolled mistake; "error" Greek; an offense committed in
ignorance of some material fact.
Hubris - correct answer ✔✔ excessive pride.
, Reversal - correct answer ✔✔ the point in a story when the protagonist's fortunes turn in an
unexpected direction.
Recognition - correct answer ✔✔ the moment of recognition that occurs when ignorance gives
way to knowledge.
Playwright - correct answer ✔✔ writers who make plays
Fixed form - correct answer ✔✔ it follows a prescribed pattern such as a sonnet
open form (free verse) - correct answer ✔✔ (from the French "vers libre"); does not conform to
an established pattern of meter, rhyme, and stanza.
Stanza - correct answer ✔✔ the groupings of lines, set off by a space, usually with a set pattern
of meter and rhyme
Couplet - correct answer ✔✔ two line stanza.
Quatrain - correct answer ✔✔ four line stanzas (the most common stanzas)
Sonnet - correct answer ✔✔ a popular literary form in English since the 16th century, adopted
from the Italian sonnet meaning "little song."
Rhyme - correct answer ✔✔ a way of creating sound patterns
Onomatopoeia - correct answer ✔✔ the use of a word that resembles the sound of the word
that it denotes (ex. quack, bang, rattle, buzz, burp)
