Poetry Analysis
Theory
Shakespeare
Historical Contexts
Literary Terms
100
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
A school of thought that asks questions about how women are portrayed and treated in a work.
What is feminist theory?
100
This person.
Who is Shakespeare?
100
The movement that started when King Henry VIII decided he wanted a divorce.
What is the English Reformation?
100
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The process of determining the meter of a poem.
What is scansion?
200
A school of theory that asks questions about humanity's stewardship of the earth.
What is eco-criticism?
200
These were the main actors who portrayed women in Shakespearean plays.
What are young men?
200
What poem is depicted in this painting?
What is "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"?
200
Comparing two unlike things without using blatant comparative language.
What is a metaphor?
300
The pattern of rhymes in a poem, encoded for easy understanding.
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
A school of literary criticism that is involved in understanding the historical context of a work.
What is New Historicism?
300
This trapdoor onto the stage allowed actors portraying demons or ghosts to appear onstage.
What is hell?
300
These people wanted a return to artistic ideals from before the Renaissance.
Who are the pre-Raphaelites?
300
The idea that an author does not have the ultimate authority over how a work is interpreted.
What is the death of the author?
400
The meter used for a sonnet.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
A book by Edward Said that is considered the beginning of postcolonial theory.
What is Orientalism?
400
This character shares a name with a famous mermaid.
Who is Ariel?
400
The Puritans shut this down in 1642.
What are the theaters in London?
400
The repetition of beginning sounds for poetic effect.
What is alliteration?
500
The meter of the following lines of poetry:
"Night and silence.--Who is here?
Weeds of Athens he doth wear"
What is trochaic tetrameter?
500
Criticism that asks questions about the role of humanity and the nonhuman.
What is post-humanism?
500
Prospero does this to show he is no longer interested in continuing his old habits as a magician.
What is breaking his staff?
500
A person who was often portrayed as the Faerie Queene, both favorably and mockingly.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
500
A kind of poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?