english unit 3 Flashcards
tuesday revision
William Shakespeare
The Playwright who wrote Twelfth Night.
Queen Elizabeth I
The Queen on the throne when Twelfth Night was written
Twelfth Night
The holiday on January 6th was the last night of the Christmas celebration and
celebrated as a festival when everything was turned upside down.
Metaphor
A comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in
common.
Simile
A comparison using “like” or “as”
Personification
Giving human qualities to inanimate (non-living) objects.
Hyperbole
Deliberate/outrageous exaggeration.
Blank verse
Writing that has a rhythmic structure but doesn’t rhyme.
Rhymed verse
Writing that has a rhythmic structure and uses rhyme.
Prose
Writing without a rhythmic structure.
A shipwrecked girl who disguises herself as a man - Cesario
Viola
Viola’s twin brother who thinks she’s dead.
Sebastian
The Duke of Illyria who is in love with Olivia.
Orsino
She is a rich countess who is mourning but falls in love with Cesario
Olivia
Olivia’s maid who likes Sir Toby
Maria
Olivia’s uncle who is always drunk.
Sir Toby Belch
A drunk who hopes to marry Olivia.
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Olivia’s fool and clown.
Feste
Olivia’s chief servant who secretly likes her.
Malvolio
Rescues Sebastian after the shipwreck.
Antonio
Sight, smell, hearing,
taste, and touch
The five senses.
Imagery
The use of descriptive language that appeals to the senses
Onomatopoeia
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
Iamb
A metrical foot consisting of two syllables.
Iambic pentameter
A line of verse with 5 pairs of stressed and unstressed beats.
Melodramatic
Exaggerated and emotional or sentimental.
Contemptuous
Expressing disapproval or disrespect.
Puritans
A religious group who opposed the theatre and other forms of
entertainment.
Puritanical
Having a strict moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.
Puritanically
Elizabethan audiences would have been deeply unsympathetic to anyone
behaving in this way.
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
Pompous
Love that is not returned.
Unrequited
Irritate intensely.
Exasperate
Pretend to be someone you are not. Put on a false show
Masquerade
Try to gain the love of someone.
Woo
Passionate expression of grief or sorrow
Lament
To hate someone or something.
Loathe
A state of disturbance, confusion or uncertainty.
Turmoil
Noisy partying.
Revelry
A difficult or embarrassing situation
Predicament
Mayhem
Complete disorder and confusion. Chaos.
Ignominy
Public shame or disgrace
Soliloquy
A speech where a character speaks his thoughts out loud so that only the
audience can hear them.
Trepidation
A feeling of alarm or anxiety about something about to happen
Concealment
A way or place of hiding.
Women were not allowed
to work.
The reason Viola from ‘Twelfth Night’ had to pretend to be a man.
Duel
An arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched
weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules.
Affray
A fight in a public place.
Elation
A feeling of great joy or pride.
Opportunist
A person who adapts their behaviour to take advantage of the situation.
