Regardless of which genre was being performed, the area surrounding the stage would have been populated by the lower class patrons, known as these.
What are the groundlings?
100
Words like anon, prithee, and sirrah are considered this.
What is archaic?
100
The feeling of pity from viewing the misfortunes of the protagonist is known as this.
What is pathos?
100
To show a character as weak and vulnerable, a director/cinematographer would use this shot.
What is a high angle shot?
100
To focus in on a small object, like a gun, from a distance.
What is a zoom shot?
200
This genre often features cross-dressing and mistaken identities. Plays include The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night.
What is comedy?
200
Leaving a word out when the meaning is implied, as in the example "Let's away." Or, leaving a letter out of a word to make it fewer syllables, as in "Ne'er."
What is omission?
200
This refers to a defect in the character himself, like Othello's jealousy.
What is a tragic flaw?
200
To emphasize the scenery and setting over the actors, a director would use this.
What is a long or extreme long shot?
200
To arrange images or events thematically as opposed to chronologically, you would use this kind of editing.
What is a montage?
300
This genre features a noble protagonist who undergoes a fall from grace and comic relief. Plays include some of Shakespeare's finest, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello.
What is tragedy?
300
When addressing a person of superior rank or a stranger, an Elizabethan would use this form of address.
What is the formal you?
300
After viewing a tragedy, the purging of pity and fear leads to an uplifting feeling, a phenomenon known as this.
What is catharsis?
300
To draw attention to a specific feature, such as an eyelash or a facial expression, you would use this.
What is a close-up or extreme close-up?
300
To show events occuring simultaneously, you would use this kind of editing.
What is cross-cutting?
400
This genre features stories of English kings and nobles, civil wars, and themes involving the struggle for and application of power.
What is history?
400
Switching the word order away from the normal subject-verb-object structure, as in the example "Blessed are the meek."
What is inversion?
400
Well, the Prince Hamlet dies, and the king dies, and the queen dies, and Polonius dies, and Ophelia dies, and Laertes dies...
What is the catastrophe?
400
To emphasize a character's power or authority, you would use this.
What is a low angle shot?
400
This movement would be most useful while filming a chase scene.
What is a dolly shot?
500
The last that Shakespeare experimented with, this genre combines elements of both comedy and tragedy and features themes of loss and redemption.
What is romance?
500
A regular pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables, as in the example "But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?"
What is iambic pentameter?
500
This terms refers to the protagonist's recognition in the reversal of his fortunes, as when Macbeth realizes that the Witches deceived him.
What is peripeteia?
500
To show a character drunk, poisoned, or imbalanced, you would use this.
What is a Dutch or oblique angle?
500
To move up and away from the subject, perhaps at the end of a romantic comedy as the lovers kiss in the middle of a New York City street, you would use this.