| A | B |
|---|
| tragedy | a play that ends badly |
| comedy | a play that ends happily |
| soliloquy | long speech by one character who is alone on stage |
| aside | speech by one character not heard by another character on stage |
| verbal irony | what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
| situational irony | what happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows something that a character does not |
| act | a large part of a play, often marked by curtains closing or lights coming on or going off |
| scene | a relatively small part of a play, often marked by the entrances or exits of characters |
| Martin Luther | began the reformation |
| Johannes Gutenberg | movable type printing press |
| Thomas More | wrote the Utopia, beheaded by Henry VIII |
| William Caxton | brought movable printing press to England |
| meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| foot | metrical unit that is repeated in a line |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| conceit | a figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things |
| quatrain | four lines grouped together |
| sonnet | a fourteen line lyric poem |
| pun | a play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| aphorism | a witty saying that expresses a principle, truth, or observation about life |
| turn | the shift in focus |
| Henry VIII | poor treatment of wives |
| Elizabeth I | famous monarch of the Renaissance |
