Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Lit. Terms 2
Potpurri
Potpurri 2
100
The commandments say to show this to your elders
What is deference?
100
a two line unit of poetry
What is a couplet?
100
The three types of plays written by Shakespeare
What is comedy, tragedy and history?
100
Because it has an expansive setting, supernatural villains and a hero of noble stature, Beowulf is known as this type of poem.
What is epic?
100
The list of sources is called the "References" page in this citation style
What is APA?
200
The Wife of Bath wants to have this over her husband(s).
What is sovereignty?
200
The following is an example of which literary device: Question: How did the service begin in the church for vegetables? Answer: Lettuce pray
What is a pun?
200
A device in which the speaker in a poem directly addresses someone or something as though it will respond
What is apostrophe?
200
Playwright, poet and Shakespeare authorship candidate Christopher Marlowe died in this unusual way
What is a stabbing in a tavern brawl?
200
This process involves taking notes in a way that "interacts" with the text
What is annotation?
300
Rambling on and on is...
What is prating?
300
Another word for extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
The subjects of Shakespeare's sonnets
What is the Dark Lady and the Fair Youth
300
What church was established by Henry VIII?
What is The Church of England?
300
This three column notetaking system requires notes, cues, and reflection
What is Cornell notetaking
400
Guinevere and Lancelot make Arthur one of these.
What is cuckold?
400
"The Passionate Shepherd to the Nymph" is an example of this type of poem, that idealizes a rustic setting
What is pastoral?
400
"Death, thou shalt die" is an example of...
paradox or personification
400
These were the parents of Elizabeth I
Who are Henry VIII and Ann Boelyn?
400
A protagonist in a tragedy is referred to as a .........., and he is brought down by what is known as his......
What is tragic hero; tragic flaw
500
When Beowulf defeats Grendel by tricking him, he proves that he has...
What is guile?
500
We know that Hamlet knows how his father really died, but Claudius does not.
What is dramatic irony?
500
A Shakespearean sonnet is comprised of these components
What is: Three quatrains expressing separate but related ideas, and a rhyming couplet
500
Sir Walter Raleigh's "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" mocks the romantic, pleading tone of Marlowe's poem and is an example of this type of humor
What is satire?
500
Being framed and wrongfully imprisoned inspired this author's cynical view of monarchs and their followers in le Morte d'Arthur
Who is Sir Thomas Malory?
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