Elizabethan Shakespeare Key Terms Quiz

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A quiz of the key terms related to the study of Elizabethan Shakespeare's plays.
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Frage 1

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Ague
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  • A fever, sickness or shaking
  • the excess or deficiency of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influencing health and temperament.

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Anaphora
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  • Parallelism create when successive phrases or lines begin with the same words
  • An error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece.

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Cuckoldry
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  • The type of hat that a jester or fool wears.
  • When a woman cheats on her husband, she makes him a cuckold.

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Epistrophe
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  • 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.

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Half Rhyme
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  • An incomplete rhyme, ending at the line and not continuing to the next
  • a rhyme of only partial matching sounds

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Metonymy
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  • substituting a concept or idea with something associated with it
  • When body parts are used to describe someone

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Motif
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  • 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

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Oxymoron
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  • Two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect
  • A statement that appears to be contradictory but upon close examination makes sense.

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Paradox
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  • A contradictory statement that makes sense.
  • To expose and criticize foolishness.

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Synecdoche
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  • 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.

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Antic disposition
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  • Acting sarcastic and angry as a mask.
  • Pretending to be mad.

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Anachronism
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  • A purposeful change in the plot that is unexpected.
  • Anything out of time or place; an error in chronology or the timeline.

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Vice
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  • A evil characteristic that is used as an example.
  • Stock character from medieval morality plays.

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Carnivalesque
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  • 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.

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Satire
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  • To ridicule a person accidentally or in reference.
  • To expose and criticize foolishness and corruption by using humour, irony and exaggeration or ridicule.

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Body Politic
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  • 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.

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Primogeniture
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  • 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.

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In-Built Stage Directions
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  • 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.

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Metatheatricality
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  • When a character is being overdramatic.
  • Theatre as self-conscious of being a drama.

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Bathos
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  • Shift from the sublime to the ridiculous.
  • Creating pity for a character.

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Metaphor
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  • A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially abstract.
  • Using parts to refer to the whole.

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Soliloquy
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  • 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.

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Conceit
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  • An elaborate metaphor.
  • To be arrogant and cocky.

Frage 24

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Humours
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  • 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.

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Allusion
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  • Distorting reality.
  • A reference to things outside of the text.

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Pathos
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  • Shift from the ridiculous to the sublime.
  • Evoking pity for a character.

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Dramatic Irony
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  • Where a character does not know something that the audience does.
  • Humour unrecognized by a character.

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Foreshadowing
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  • To show, indicate, or suggest in advance of what is to come.
  • Alluding to darker events.

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Blazon
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  • An elaborate metaphor.
  • Cataloguing the love's physical features in comparison to other objects of beauty.
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