5c. Study Help
Concepts & terms to remember
Check your Literary History file whether you've taken notes on all these concepts/terms.
General historical background
- renewed interest in Classical times
- Humanism
- Thomas More
- Utopia
- The Tudor Dynasty
- Protestantism
- Renaissance Theatre
Sonnets
- sonnet
- rhyme scheme
- iambic pentameter
- stanzas: quatrains, tercets, couplets
- techniques: alliteration, assonance, personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole
Tragedies
- script
- acts & scenes
- five act narrative pattern
- stage directions
- dialogues
- asides
- monologues
- soliloquys
- tragedy
- tragic hero
Comedies
- [not required in 2021/2022]