| A | B |
| Phebe | Falls in love with Ganymede |
| Orlando | Wrestles a lion |
| Oliver | Falls in love with Celia |
| Touchstone | Falls in love with Audrey |
| Silvius | In love with Phebe |
| Rosalind | Falls in love with Orlando |
| Jacques | Tells Touchstone that he should marry in a church |
| Celia | Admonishes Rosalind for abusing the female sex |
| William | country fellow who wants to marry Audrey |
| Corin | argues with Touchstone about the merits of country life |
| Aliena | Celia's alias |
| Ganymede | Rosalind's alias |
| Personification | "the lazy foot of Time" |
| allusion | "Something browner than Judas" |
| apostrophe | "O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!" |
| heroic couplet | "Yet fortune cannot recompense me better/ Than to die well and not my master's debtor." |
| iambic pentameter | a type of meter that contains five feet in a line |
| simile | "I can suck melancholoy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs." |
| metaphor | "All the world's a stage." |
| Duke Senior | Rosalind's father |