Elizabethan Shakespeare Key Terms Quiz

A fever, sickness or shaking

the excess or deficiency of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influencing health and temperament.

Parallelism create when successive phrases or lines begin with the same words

An error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece.

The type of hat that a jester or fool wears.

When a woman cheats on her husband, she makes him a cuckold.

An arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or abstract idea as if it were present.

the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases or clauses or sentences.

An incomplete rhyme, ending at the line and not continuing to the next

a rhyme of only partial matching sounds

substituting a concept or idea with something associated with it

When body parts are used to describe someone

A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.

Any element, subject or idea, or concept that is constantly present through the entire body of literature

Two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect

A statement that appears to be contradictory but upon close examination makes sense.

A contradictory statement that makes sense.

To expose and criticize foolishness.

A figure of speech where a part of something is used to refer to the whole.

Substituting a concept or idea with something associated with it.

Acting sarcastic and angry as a mask.

Pretending to be mad.

A purposeful change in the plot that is unexpected.

Anything out of time or place; an error in chronology or the timeline.

A evil characteristic that is used as an example.

Stock character from medieval morality plays.

A medieval trope; where wildness is purged for a short time in order for society to accept authority the rest of the time.

When a foolish play is put on to represent the importance of authority by inverting societal roles.

To ridicule a person accidentally or in reference.

To expose and criticize foolishness and corruption by using humour, irony and exaggeration or ridicule.

A metaphor of a nation as a body, needing every part to function.

The head of the Roman state, which had the strength of authority.

The right of the first born to inherit his father's money and titles.

The law that replaced the idea of all sons inheriting the family wealth and property.

Words within a text that give hints as to what the actors should be doing in a scene.

Directions written by shakespeare in sidenotes to instruct actors.

When a character is being overdramatic.

Theatre as self-conscious of being a drama.

Shift from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Creating pity for a character.

A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially abstract.

Using parts to refer to the whole.

The speech of a character that only the audience and not the other characters can hear.

An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud whilst alone onstage.

An elaborate metaphor.

To be arrogant and cocky.

The humour or comedy of a play as given by the characters.

Excess or deficiency of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influences their temperament and health.

Distorting reality.

A reference to things outside of the text.

Shift from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Evoking pity for a character.

Where a character does not know something that the audience does.

Humour unrecognized by a character.

To show, indicate, or suggest in advance of what is to come.

Alluding to darker events.

An elaborate metaphor.

Cataloguing the love's physical features in comparison to other objects of beauty.