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Shakespeare Background
Literary Terms I
The Globe
Elizabethan Women
Literary Terms II
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The year Shakespeare was born.
What is 1564.
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Words spoken by a character in a play, usually in an undertone, not intended to be heard by the others on stage.
What is aside
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The name of the theater company Shakespeare worked under
What is Lord Chamberlain's Men
100
Roles of wives in Elizabethan Era
What is to keep house, provide children, provide a dowry
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The outcome of the conflict in a play or story
What is resolution
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This is where Shakespeare was born.
What is Stratford-Upon-Avon
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A long, uninterrupted speech in the presence of others
What is monologue
200
True or False: Shakespeare's performers consisted of male and female actors and actresses
What is false
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How women were marriage during this time
What is arranged marriage
200
Language that appeals to any sense
What is imagery
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Audience members demanded this from plays during this time
What is action, gore, great poetry, good language, puns
300
The central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end
What is tragedy
300
This is a benefit of not having elaborate stage equipment
What is no scenery had to change, which put more focus on action of the play; it helped it flow more quickly
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Literally means "rebirth"
What is The Renaissance
300
A long speech usually lengthy, in which a character expresses his thoughts out loud
What is soliloquy
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The year Romeo and Juliet was written
What is 1594
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The greatest point of emotional intensity in a story or play
What is the climax
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This is the name of the ceiling of the globe theater
What is the "heavens"
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Happened when women disobeyed their husbands
What is beheading, whipping post, or beating
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The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come
What is foreshadowing
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Shakespeare died on this day
What is his birthday
500
Two consecutive lines of rhyming poetry that are written in iambic pentameter
What is heroic couplet
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The name for the poor audience members
What is groundlings
500
Examples of rights denied to females during the Elizabethan Era
What is voting rights, right to a title, admittance into the amy, doctor/lawyer, and being tutored in the home (no universities).
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A humorous use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time
What is a pun