Contexts of Plays

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GRE Subject Test: Literature in English › Contexts of Plays

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Which of the following literary devices does not appear in Angels in America?

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KING: … Hieronimo, it greatly pleaseth us

That in our victory thou have a share

By virtue of thy worthy son’s exploit.

… Bring hither the young prince of Portingale!

The rest march on, but, ere they be dismissed,

We will bestow on every soldier

Two ducats, and on every leader ten,

That they may know our largesse welcomes them.

Exeunt all \[the army\] but BALTHAZAR,

LORENZO, and HORATIO.

What genre of play is this?

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Which of the following literary devices does not appear in Angels in America?

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Which of the following literary devices does not appear in Angels in America?

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KING: … Hieronimo, it greatly pleaseth us

That in our victory thou have a share

By virtue of thy worthy son’s exploit.

… Bring hither the young prince of Portingale!

The rest march on, but, ere they be dismissed,

We will bestow on every soldier

Two ducats, and on every leader ten,

That they may know our largesse welcomes them.

Exeunt all \[the army\] but BALTHAZAR,

LORENZO, and HORATIO.

What genre of play is this?

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KING: … Hieronimo, it greatly pleaseth us

That in our victory thou have a share

By virtue of thy worthy son’s exploit.

… Bring hither the young prince of Portingale!

The rest march on, but, ere they be dismissed,

We will bestow on every soldier

Two ducats, and on every leader ten,

That they may know our largesse welcomes them.

Exeunt all \[the army\] but BALTHAZAR,

LORENZO, and HORATIO.

What genre of play is this?

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During what decade was Death of a Salesman first performed?

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During what decade was Death of a Salesman first performed?

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During what decade was Death of a Salesman first performed?

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THE FLOWER GIRL: There's menners f' yer! Te-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad. \[She sits down on the plinth of the column, sorting her flowers, on the lady's right. She is not at all an attractive person. She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty, hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and soot of London and has seldom if ever been brushed. Her hair needs washing rather badly: its mousy color can hardly be natural. She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist. She has a brown skirt with a coarse apron. Her boots are much the worse for wear. She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. Her features are no worse than theirs; but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the services of a dentist\].

THE MOTHER: How do you know that my son's name is Freddy, pray?

THE FLOWER GIRL: Ow, eez ye-ooa san, is e? Wal, fewd dan y' de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awy atbaht pyin. Will ye-oo py me f'them? \[Here, with apologies, this desperate attempt to represent her dialect without a phonetic alphabet must be abandoned as unintelligible outside London.\]

Who is one of the protagonists of this play?

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