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