Shakespeare Lit Terms 2025 5.0

What is an allusion?

• A direct statement

• A reference to a familiar literary, historical, or religious person or event

• A type of irony

• A poetic device.

In Shakespeare's plays, what is the CHORUS?

• A group of dancers

• A single character who serves as a narrator

• A group of musicians

• A set of props

What is dramatic irony?

• When the audience knows something that a character does not

• When you say one thing but you mean something else

• A form of allusion

• A play on words

A joke that relies on a play on two words that sound similar is a(n) ______.

• pun

• oxymoron

• allusion

• aside

A sonnet is a 14 line poem with a regular rhyme scheme, ending in a ______.

• Rhyming couplet

• Soliloquy

• Metaphor

• Pun

Personification involves giving ______ traits to non-human things.

• Animal

• Human

• Alien

• Plant

What is the term for paired, opposite words, or an expression that combines contradictory ideas? (For example, when Romeo says, "brawling love" and "loving hate.")

• dramatic irony

• tragedy

• oxymoron

• tragic flaw

Allusion

• a figure of speech in which an object, event, or person from an unrelated context is mentioned

• words that have the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings

• hinting at what is to come

• a temporary state of mind or feeling

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When a character says something that most others are not supposed to hear

• couplet

• allusion

• irony

• aside

In Shakespeare's theater, lower class people stood on the ground in front of the stage. There were called the

• bums

• servants

• chorus

• groundlings