Shakespeare's Stage
The words characters speak to one another in a play.
What is dialogue?
Language that appeals to the five senses and helps readers picture an experience.
What is imagery?
The ability to control events, influence people, or make decisions.
What is power?
Being released from confinement or another person's control.
What is freedom?
The European country where the cities of Milan and Naples are located.
What is Italy?
Instructions in a script that tell actors how to move, speak, or behave onstage.
What are stage directions?
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Breaking someone's trust or acting against someone who believes you are loyal.
What is betrayal?
Compassion or kindness shown to someone who could be punished.
The body of water between southern Europe and northern Africa that helps establish the geographical world of The Tempest.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A speech in which a character expresses thoughts aloud, often while alone onstage.
What is a soliloquy?
The central message or insight about life that a literary work communicates.
What is theme?
The desire to punish someone because you believe they have wronged you.
What is revenge?
Choosing to let go of resentment toward someone who has hurt you.
What is forgiveness?
The Italian city-state whose ruler is Prospero at the beginning of the play's backstory.
What is Milan?
A character gives a speech that may be heard by other characters or the audience. Unlike a soliloquy, it does not necessarily reveal private thoughts.
What is a monologue?
A struggle between opposing forces, such as two characters, a character and society, or a character and nature.
What is conflict?
Taking a position of power or property that rightfully belongs to someone else.
What is usurpation?
Restoring a relationship after conflict, betrayal, or harm.
The Italian city associated with the king who travels with his party in The Tempest.
What is Naples?
A brief remark a character makes to the audience or another character that the other characters onstage are not supposed to hear.
What is an aside?
When an object, image, or action represents a larger idea beyond its literal meaning.
What is symbolism?
Influencing or controlling another person through deception, pressure, or carefully planned actions.
What is manipulation?
A difficult situation in which a person must choose between competing values, and every choice has an ethical cost.
What is a moral dilemma?
Being forced to leave one's home or homeland, often as a punishment or result of political conflict.
What is exile?