A | B |
Elizabethan Age | Tudor Age |
Defeat of the Spanish Armada | 1588 |
James I | ruled after Elizabeth |
James I persecuted | the Puritans. |
"no place" | Utopia |
1611 | The King James Bible |
greatest sonnet writer in England | Shakespeare |
14-line poem | sonnet |
a type of love song popular during Elizabethan times | madrigal |
a classical love song dealing with rustic and shepherd life | pastoral |
arrangement of events | plot |
people who perform the action of the drama | character |
turning point | crisis |
the actual movements and speech in drama | action |
where a character either directly addresses the audience or another character to comment on the action | aside |
speech by one character alone on stage | soliloquy |
speeches between two or more characters | dialogue |
a form of literature written in prose or poetry or a combination of both which relies on action to portray life or character | drama |
Una represents | truth |
Red Cross Knight | represents holiness |
Gloriana represents | Queen Elizabeth I |
unrhymed iambic pentameter | blank verse |
Spenserian stanza | 9-line stanza having a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc; the first 8 lines in iambic pentameter and the 9th line in iambic hexameter |
unaccented accented | iambic |
accented unaccented | trochee |
unaccented unaccented accented | anapest |
accented unaccented unaccented | dactyl |
accented accented | spondee |
accented | monosyllabic |
correspondence of sound | rhyme |
regular recurrence of sound | rhythm |
measured rhythm of a poem | meter |
pattern in a line of poetry | foot |
end rhyme | the repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sounds and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of poetry |
Shakespeare's sonnets | 154 |
Shakespeare's plays | 37 |