Shakespeare Terms Flashcards
List the 6 types of arts held in high esteem during the renaissance
Playwrights, musicians, painters, sculptors, poets, architects
6 reasons why Shakespeare appealed to the English audiences
Poetic speeches, exciting action, fast paced humor, vivid character portrayals, wise observation about human nature, universal human concerns
List 10+ characteristics about the globe theater
Wooden, no roof, poor go to pit (1 cent), rich get inner balconies, no artificial lighting, no curtains, hardly any props, 3,000 spectators, 3 stories, male actors, little seating, open air courtyard at the center, raised platform stage
Three words he invented
Assasination
Bump
Lonely
Three expressions he wrote
Household words
Dead as a door nail
Laughing stock
For goodness sake
Green eyed monster
Things that make a tragic hero
Noble born
Can influence society
Fatal flaw
Fatal flaw leads to downfall
Fate and destiny in play
How many dramas has Shakespeare written, and what types?
37, and histories, comedies, and tragedies
Literary techniques he uses and what does he use to enrich the meaning of his work?
Foils, soliloquies, asides
Allusions
Character flaw definition
A fault, weakness in a person, or a serious error in judgment
What is a comic relief
Provides a contrast to the serious events in a tragedy and help emotionally prepare the audience for further serious events.
What is an allusion and which did he normally include from
Brief reference to something outside the work
Bible and green/Roman mythology
Foil
Character whose personality contrasts with others, accents the good, bad, and ugly
Dramatic convention
2 types
Device that audiences accept as realistic
Aside and soliloquy
Soliloquy
Character is alone on stage and purpose is to let audiences know what they are thinking
Aside
Spoken to the audience and others aren’t supposed to hear. Reveals characters thoughts
What are his plays mainly written in
Blank verse
Act
Subdivision of a play
Scene
Further subdivision of an act
Melodrama
Play designed to arouse intense emotion by exaggeration and fast moving action
Pantomime
Actions without props or words
Farce
Highly exaggerated humorous play or skit
Plot structure of a tragedy
Exposition
Inciting force (something that gets action moving)
Rising action
Climax (usually in act three)
Falling action
Moment of final suspense (quick)
Catastrophe
Petrarchan/ Italian sonnet amount of stanzas (names) and rhyme scheme
2 stanzas: first is Octave (8 lines) second is Sestet (6 lines)
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
Shakespearean/English sonnet stanzas and rhyme scheme
Three quatrains and a couplet
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
