English Literature Test 6

The writer's structure and the relationship of actions, characters and events in a fictional work. The organization of the narrative

plot

story

character

theme

A shortened version of an original text, created by removing passages or sections of the text

plain text

Condensed text

objective text

Abridged

A collection of Comedies, Histories and tragedies (36 in total) of Shakespeare's works, published in 1623.

Last folio

First folio

Initial folio

second folio

Words that modify verbs, clauses, sentences and adjectives

Adverbs

Interjection

Helping verbs

Adjectives

This refers to an imaginary wall, as if separating the actors on stage from the audience

Curtain

Division

Fourth wall

Third wall

Another term for a Shakespearean sonnet

Miltonic

Petrarchan

Spenserian

English Sonnet

A bawdy song and dance in Renaissance drama that was performed by a clown, or other actors, at the end of a play

Final performance

Jig

Chorus

None of the above

A poetic term used to refer to a verse having the expected number of syllables in the final foot

Iambic

hypercatalectic

catalectic

Acatalectic

Refers to the period during the reign of King James I, between 1603-1625. Shakespeare wrote his later works in the that period.

Middle English Period

The Romantic Period

Jacobean Period

Neoclassical Period

This type is now less popular than in the past. It was a drama performed with no interval and was generally less than an hour long.

Old play

One act play

Short play

Absurd

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