| 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 |