English Shakespeare Vocab

Question 1

Monologue

Answer 1

Part of play where an actor speaks alone

Question 2

Staging

Answer 2

The act, process, or manner of presenting a play

Question 3

Scripting

Answer 3

The manuscript or one of various copies of the written text of a play, movie, or tv show

Question 4

Verse

Answer 4

A succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of poetry

Question 5

Stanza

Answer 5

An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length , meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of poem

Question 6

Tragedy

Answer 6

A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber matter

Question 7

Counsel

Answer 7

Private thoughts

Question 8

Inference

Answer 8

The act of coming to a reasonable conclusion from facts or evidence

Question 9

Aristocracy

Answer 9

A class of persons holing exceptional ratings and privileges

Question 10

Playwright

Answer 10

A writer of playes

Question 11

Illustration

Answer 11

The act of clarifying or explaining

Question 12

Proscenium stage

Answer 12

The inner stage separating the audience and stage by a curtain

Question 13

Shrift

Answer 13

Confession to a priest

Question 14

Prologue

Answer 14

Spoken by the chorus, which briefly summarizes the play

Question 15

Blank verse

Answer 15

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 16

Couplets

Answer 16

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Question 17

End stop

Answer 17

Punctuation at the end of a line of poetry

Question 18

Run on

Answer 18

A line of poetry without punctuation at the end

Question 19

Soliloquy

Answer 19

A character talks to themselves or reveals his or her thought without addressing a listener

Question 20

Aside

Answer 20

A part of an actors lines supposedly not heard by others on stage and intended only for the audience