Elizabethan Shakespeare Key Terms Quiz

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Ague

Answer 1

A fever, sickness or shaking

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

An error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece.

Answer 5

The type of hat that a jester or fool wears.

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

a rhyme of only partial matching sounds

Answer 11

substituting a concept or idea with something associated with it

Answer 12

When body parts are used to describe someone

Answer 13

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

Answer 14

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

Answer 15

Two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect

Answer 16

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

Answer 17

A contradictory statement that makes sense.

Answer 18

To expose and criticize foolishness.

Answer 19

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

Answer 20

Substituting a concept or idea with something associated with it.

Answer 21

Acting sarcastic and angry as a mask.

Answer 22

Pretending to be mad.

Answer 23

A purposeful change in the plot that is unexpected.

Answer 24

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

Answer 25

A evil characteristic that is used as an example.

Answer 26

Stock character from medieval morality plays.

Answer 27

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

Answer 28

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

Answer 29

To ridicule a person accidentally or in reference.

Answer 30

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

Answer 31

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

Answer 32

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

Answer 33

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

Answer 34

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

Answer 35

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

Answer 36

Directions written by shakespeare in sidenotes to instruct actors.

Answer 37

When a character is being overdramatic.

Answer 38

Theatre as self-conscious of being a drama.

Answer 39

Shift from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Answer 40

Creating pity for a character.

Answer 41

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

Answer 42

Using parts to refer to the whole.

Answer 43

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

Answer 44

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

Answer 45

An elaborate metaphor.

Answer 46

To be arrogant and cocky.

Answer 47

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

Answer 48

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

Answer 49

Distorting reality.

Answer 50

A reference to things outside of the text.

Answer 51

Shift from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Answer 52

Evoking pity for a character.

Answer 53

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

Answer 54

Humour unrecognized by a character.

Answer 55

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

Answer 56

Alluding to darker events.

Answer 57

An elaborate metaphor.

Answer 58

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

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