1. Drama: The Shakespearean Tragedy

2. A play written for stage, radio, film, or television; usually about a serious topic or situation

3. A dramatic play that tells the story of a character (or characters), usually of a noble birth, who meets an untimely and unhappy death or downfall, often because of a specific character flaw or twist of fate

4. An archetypal hero based on the Greek concept of tragedy; the tragic hero has a flaw that makes him vulnerable to downfall or death Greed Rage Lust Mental illness

5. Elements employed by dramatists and directors to tell a story on stage. Costumes Makeup Props Set Acting choices

6. The evaluation and critical analysis of a work Through a given lens (Feminist, Marxist, etc.)

7. The ability to know and be aware of one’s own thought processes; self-reflection

8. A dramatic speech delivered by a single character in a play

9. The central character (or characters) in a work of literature; the one who is involved in the main conflict in the plot

10. An author’s choice of words

11. The use of sensory details to convey ideas

12. The direct comparison of two unlike things (no use of ‘like’ or ‘as’)

13. Over-exaggeration for a specific effect (such as humor)

14. A reference to a well-known person, place, literary work, work of art, event, etc.

15. A figure of speech (figurative language) that gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

16. A character whose actions or thoughts are juxtaposed against those of a major character in order to highlight key attributes of the major character

17. A literary device that exploits readers’ expectations The reader or audience knows more about the circumstances or future events in a story than the characters within it Different from verbal irony or situational irony

18. The central message about life or human nature in a work

19. Unrhymed verse

20. A couplet written in iambic pentameter

21. The form of English spoken by the Anglo-Saxons from the 5 th – 11 th centuries

23. The form of English spoken throughout most of Britain from the 12 th – 15 th centuries Forrþrihht anan se time comm þatt ure Drihhtin wollde ben borenn i þiss middellærd forr all mannkinne nede he chæs himm sone kinnessmenn all swillke summ he wollde and whær he wollde borenn ben he chæs all att hiss wille. No standardized spelling or grammar As soon as the time came that our Lord wanted be born in this middle-earth for all mankind sake, at once he chose kinsmen for himself, all just as he wanted, and he decided that he would be born exactly where he wished.

24. The current form of English spoken from the 16 th century to the present Early modern (Shakespeare) Late modern (present-day)

25. The common-day English spoken by Shakespeare and his contemporaries (The “Queen’s English”)

26. A long speech delivered by an actor alone on the stage All soliloquies are monologues Not all monologues are soliloquies

27. The use of anything (object, animal, event, person, or place) to represent itself and stand for something else on a figurative level

28. The juxtaposition of two opposite things; words that would appear to contradict each other “jumbo shrimp” “honest politician” “loving hate”

29. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together

30. A rhythm characterized by 5 meters (groups) of the unstressed+stressed foot

31. The Shakespearean sonnet is characterized by 14 lines written in iambic pentameter, following the ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme