The 16th Century / The Renaissance

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• tudor style is characterized by a high degree of rhetorical ornamentation, self-conscious artifice, and a focus on "copiousness"—verbal richness and variety. Heavily influenced by humanism and
• soliloquy a dramatic literary device where a character speaks their innermost thoughts aloud while alone or oblivious to others on stage. Primarily used in theater, it allows audiences direc
• shakespearean sonnet a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet.
• blank verse a prominent English poetic form characterized by unrhymed, metered lines, almost exclusively written in iambic pentameter.
• puns were a staple of Elizabethan and Jacobean wit, frequently used in both comedic and tragic contexts to showcase wordplay, intelligence, and double meanings.
• equivocations using double-meaning of words to mislead, or avoid taking a stance.
• humanist philosophy focused on reviving classical Greco-Roman literature and ethics to foster civic virtue, eloquence, and human potential, transitioning from medieval scholasticism to a more secular

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