Renaissance Literature Term Quiz

A character’s inherent defect that leads to their downfall in a tragedy.

• Soliloquy

• Tragic Flaw

• Blank Verse

• Pastoral

A speech delivered by a character alone on stage, revealing inner thoughts.

• Heroic Couplet

• Allusion

• Soliloquy

• Carpe Diem

An extended metaphor that makes an unusual or intellectual comparison.

• Personification

• Metaphysical Conceit

• Imagery

• Tragic Flaw

A work idealizing rural life and landscapes.

• Pastoral

• Carpe Diem

• Blank Verse

• Soliloquy

A rhymed pair of lines in iambic pentameter.

• Heroic Couplet

• Blank Verse

• Metaphysical Conceit

• Personification

Unrhymed iambic pentameter, commonly used in Shakespeare’s plays.

• Imagery

• Blank Verse

• Allusion

• Pastoral

A literary motif encouraging readers to “seize the day.”

• Tragic Flaw

• Soliloquy

• Carpe Diem

• Metaphysical Conceit

Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Blank Verse

• Heroic Couplet

A reference to another text, event, or figure, often classical or biblical.

• Allusion

• Soliloquy

• Tragic Flaw

• Pastoral

Giving human qualities to non-human entities.

• Metaphysical Conceit

• Heroic Couplet

• Personification

• Carpe Diem