1 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Elizabethan Theatre Shakespearean English PLOT Literary Devices Elizabethan Beliefs

2 This type of comedy is used in all Shakespearean plays and often involves the delivery of dirty jokes.

3 Bawdy Humor

4 This device is often used so that an actor can portray the character’s inner most thoughts without leaving the stage (other characters are present).

5 Aside

6 This device is used so that we are privy to a character’s inner most thoughts; it is often delivered by the actor alone on stage.

7 Soliloquy

8 These rowdy people who attended the plays were called _____________ because they stood around the stage.

9 Groundlings

10 Elizabethan Theatre is unique in that the only means for setting the scene was this ________________.

11 Dialogue/ Costume

12 Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s Dream were both written in _________________ verse.

13 Blank- Blank verse in non rhyming but metered in style

14 This is the meter Shakespeare used in all of his plays.

15 Iambic Pentameter

16 Shakespeare does this to words to maintain the meter.

17 Takes out or adds syllables Example: o’er for over

18 The meter closely matches this in beat.

19 The heart

20 How many syllables are in each line of the play?

21 10

22 All Shakespearean plays have this many Acts.

23 5

24 This “character” often reveals what will happen before it happens.

25 The Chorus

26 Romeo “dumps” Rosaline because of this.

27 She “hath sworn to remain chaste.”

28 Name a Shakespearean element that appears in both Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

29 Confusing messages, spurned love, forbidden love, poison/ potion, funny servants, banishment…..

30 Each family loses a “brace of kinsmen.” Shakespeare does this for what purpose?

31 To achieve balance, an important element to the Elizabethans.

32 “Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit…. With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit.”

33 allusion

34 “o heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms.”

35 antithesis

36 “Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon….”

37 personification

38 “I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I should adventure for such merchandise.”

39 metaphor

40 “As if that name, shot from the deadly level of a gun…”

41 anachronism

42 Juliet sends Romeo her ring to symbolize this.

43 Her everlasting love and forgiveness.

44 Rosaline is described as having this to emphasize her attractiveness.

45 A high forehead/ fair skin

46 Tybalt could be said to have too much choler as it represents this.

47 fire and anger

48 When Bottom is turned into a donkey the play descends into chaos. This represents what Elizabethan belief.

49 Chain of Being- That when the natural order of even one person is disrupted, the entire universe is disrupted.

50 Only men and boys acted in these plays and thus plays did not include this.

51 Wedding Scenes.