Vocabulary
They took their honeymoon trip to Bali after their ____________ ceremony in their home town.
What is nuptial?
The author's feeling or attitude towards the subject.
What is tone?
We were starving by the time we got to our hotel.
What is hyperbole?
Romeo and Juliet are called this because of the configuration of the stars when they were born.
What are star-crossed lovers?
Adieu
What is Goodbye?
His sword collection included a ______________ from the 15th century.
What is rapier?
The literal definition of a word such as you would find in a dictionary.
What is denotation?
The additional meanings of a word: symbolism, associations
What is connotation?
This part of English Renaissance society would have been most supportive of maintaining the belief in The Great Chain of Being.
Ne'er
The students issued a formal ________________ when the teacher gave them an unannounced test.
What is grievance?
When the audience knows something a character or all characters don't know, adding tension.
What is dramatic irony?
Obtuse angles are often depressed, because they are never right.
What is a pun?
This theory of the order of the solar system placed earth in the middle with the sun, planets, and stars all revolving around it.
What is the Heliocentric model?
Dost
What is does?
A wrong, a sin
Synonyms: offense, crime
What is a transgression?
A re-occuring element in a narrative that has symbolic meaning.
What is motif?
Characters who have contrasting personalities and characteristics. They serve to emphasize each other.
What is a foil?
This theory challenged the idea of The Great Chain of Being and angered people in power.
What is the Heliocentric Solar System?
Elizabethan English term for a mean person.
What is a cur?
Swatting has proved to be a _________________ crime, since it has resulted in innocent people being shot.
What is pernicious?
birds are to sky as
fish are to water
What is an analogy?
A protagonist who is a decent person, but has a flaw that leads to death.
What is a tragic hero?
These are the social groups that attended Shakespeare's plays.
Who are the rich and poor?
A mild Renaissance curse word
What is fie?
Ms. Casey is hoping this review will _______________ your understanding of the material, so you will do well on the test.
What is augment?
A long speech in a drama.
What is soliloquy?
When the plot includes humor to break the tension in a narrative.
What is comic relief?
The first permanent theatre where Shakespeare's plays were performed?
What is The Globe?
She is fair!
Meaning of fair
What is beautiful?
Loud, excited
synonyms: ebullient, rowdy
What is boisterous?
When a child therapist sets out to help a little boy who can see dead people, the last thing he expected to learn was that he, himself, is dead.
What is situational irony?
a deafening silence . . .
the only choice . . .
What is oxymoron?
The year The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was published.
What is 1597?
Go thence!
Meaning of thence
What is away?
Some people think dreams are ________________ giving important insight, while others think they are nothing.
What is portentous?
When a character makes a comment meant to be heard only by the audience or certain other characters on stage.
What is an aside?
I might just fade into Bolivian.
I was most putrified with astonishment.
What is malaproposim?
Women characters were commonly played by these on the Renaissance stages.
Who are young men?
Have a good evening in Elizabethan English dialect.
What is God gi' go-den?