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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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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.
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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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