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The Taming of the Shrew Study Guide Flashcards

1
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the trait of self denial from worldly pleasures

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Austerity

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sorrowful through loss or deprovation

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Bereft

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3
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any movable property

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Chattels

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4
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a short jacket

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Jerkin

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5
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showing lack of judgement or experience

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Credulous

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money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

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Dowry

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to show contempt for or to disobey

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Flout

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8
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to hold back

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Forbear

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9
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a scale of musical notes

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Gamut

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dizzy, lightheaded, or lacking seriousness

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Giddy

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a stock comedic character usually an old man wearing baggy pants and chasing young girls

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Pantaloons

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words spoken by an actor in such a way that the audience is suppose to hear him/her but not the other characters on stage

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Aside

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lines in a play in which a character reveals his thoughts to the audience. This is longer than an aside and is usually done on stage alone.

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Soliloquy

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14
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two consecutive lines of rhyming poetry

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Couplet

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15
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an expression that achieves humor by two words having the same meaning or two similar sounding words

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Pun

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16
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the misuse of a longer word for a humorous effect

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Malaproprism

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when the audience knows things that the characters in the work do not know

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Dramatic Irony

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a naive hero whose view of the world differs from the authors and the reader it flatters the readers intelligence at the expense of the hero

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Structural Irony

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19
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when what is said is not what is really meant

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Verbal Irony

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20
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a character who represents one human trait or emotion

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Stock character

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21
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A tinker

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Sly

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22
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Wants to marry for fortune

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Petruchio

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23
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Falls in love at first sight

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Is seen as a shrew by all in Padua

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The man in Padua who Petruchio knows before the play starts

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From Verona

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Is told that he will be punished for breaking glasses

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Petruchio’s personal servant

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Marries a widow

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Disguises himself as a music teacher

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Hortensio, (litio)

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Ties up Bianca

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Is told that Lucentio killed a man

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Says the sun is the moon

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Petruchio & Kate

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Tells t he crowd that Katharine is affectionate

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Cusses at the wedding

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Is more of a shrew than Kate

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Throws meat about the kitchen

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Dresses Sly up as a Lord

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Pretends to be Sly’s wife

40
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Tries to outbid Lucentio for Bianca

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“Lucentio” & Gremio

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Is a pantaloons

42
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Inquires about Petruchio’s new bride when Grumio returns home

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Pays for the dress

44
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Makes a dress for Kate

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Drops the Bible at the wedding

46
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Are secretly wed

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Lucentio & Bianca

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Is thought to be the most modest girl in Padua

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Wife is too busy to come when he calls

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Can not marry until her sister does

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Pretends to be Vincentio

51
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Wife is too busy to come when he calls

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Disguises himself as a Latin tutor

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Disguises himself as a Latin tutor

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Cambio & Lucentio

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What is special about Act 2 of the play? (2 things)

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It’s one scene, longest, most important plot scene

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Disguises himself as a Latin tutor

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Cambio & Lucentio

56
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Is called a young virgin by Kate

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