Shakespeare Metalanguage

Question 1

Define

Tradegy

Answer 1

A play in which there is no happy ending, and most characters die.

Question 2

Define

Prologue

Answer 2

An opening which introduces the play’s main characters, setting and plot.

Question 3

Define

Monologue

Answer 3

A speech given by a character

Question 4

Define

Soliloquy

Answer 4

A speech given by one charcater alone on stage, expressing their thoughts and feelings.

Question 5

Define

Aside

Answer 5

A short speech given by one character that is directed to the audience, while other characters are on stage.

Question 6

Define

Pun

Answer 6

A joke which has many possible meanings

of a word or using words that sound alike

Question 7

Define

Innuendo

Answer 7

Dergoatory remark of a pun that references to crude or sexual actions or images.

Question 8

Define

Comic Relief

Answer 8

Technique which interrupts a serious part of a play by a character or situation.

Question 9

Define

Foil

Answer 9

A character which provides contrast to another character.

Question 10

Define

Blank verse

Answer 10

Has a regular rhythm but does not rhyme.

Form of poetry

Question 11

Define

Iambic pentameter

Answer 11

Has five pairs of syllables where the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed.

A line of poetry

Question 12

Define

Rhyming Couplet

Answer 12

A pair of two consecutive lines that rhyme.

Question 13

Define

Prose

Answer 13

Has no regular rhythm.

Question 14

Define

Verse

Answer 14

Another word for poetry

Question 15

Define

Dialogue

Answer 15

What the characters say to each other.

Question 16

Define

Imagery

Answer 16

A technique which is visual symbolism.

Question 17

Define

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 17

When nature is described to have emotions.

Question 18

Define

Motif

Answer 18

A repeated image or symbol

Question 19

Define

Contrast

Answer 19

A technique which there are opposites.

E.g. contrasting events, contrasting characters, contrasting ideas.

Question 20

Define

Oxymoron

Answer 20

Two opposite ideaswithin the same figure of speech

Very similar to juxtaposition.

Question 21

Define

Dichotomy

Answer 21

Division of a thing into two equal and contradictory parts

E.g. good/evil, real/imaginary, love/hate

Question 22

Define

Binary opposites

Answer 22

Concepts which are generally considered as opposed to one another.

E.g. black/white, female/male, mind/body