english unit 3

Question 1

William Shakespeare

Answer 1

The Playwright who wrote Twelfth Night.

Question 2

Queen Elizabeth I

Answer 2

The Queen on the throne when Twelfth Night was written

Question 3

Twelfth Night

Answer 3

The holiday on January 6th was the last night of the Christmas celebration and
celebrated as a festival when everything was turned upside down.

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

A comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in
common.

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

A comparison using “like” or “as”

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

Giving human qualities to inanimate (non-living) objects.

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

Deliberate/outrageous exaggeration.

Question 8

Blank verse

Answer 8

Writing that has a rhythmic structure but doesn’t rhyme.

Question 9

Rhymed verse

Answer 9

Writing that has a rhythmic structure and uses rhyme.

Question 10

Prose

Answer 10

Writing without a rhythmic structure.

Question 11

A shipwrecked girl who disguises herself as a man - Cesario

Answer 11

Viola

Question 12

Viola’s twin brother who thinks she’s dead.

Answer 12

Sebastian

Question 13

The Duke of Illyria who is in love with Olivia.

Answer 13

Orsino

Question 14

She is a rich countess who is mourning but falls in love with Cesario

Answer 14

Olivia

Question 15

Olivia’s maid who likes Sir Toby

Answer 15

Maria

Question 16

Olivia’s uncle who is always drunk.

Answer 16

Sir Toby Belch

Question 17

A drunk who hopes to marry Olivia.

Answer 17

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Question 18

Olivia’s fool and clown.

Answer 18

Feste

Question 19

Olivia’s chief servant who secretly likes her.

Answer 19

Malvolio

Question 20

Rescues Sebastian after the shipwreck.

Answer 20

Antonio

Question 21

Sight, smell, hearing,

taste, and touch

Answer 21

The five senses.

Question 22

Imagery

Answer 22

The use of descriptive language that appeals to the senses

Question 23

Onomatopoeia

Answer 23

The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.

Question 24

Iamb

Answer 24

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables.

Question 25

Iambic pentameter

Answer 25

A line of verse with 5 pairs of stressed and unstressed beats.

Question 26

Melodramatic

Answer 26

Exaggerated and emotional or sentimental.

Question 27

Contemptuous

Answer 27

Expressing disapproval or disrespect.

Question 28

Puritans

Answer 28

A religious group who opposed the theatre and other forms of | entertainment.

Question 29

Puritanical

Answer 29

Having a strict moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.

Question 30

Puritanically

Answer 30

Elizabethan audiences would have been deeply unsympathetic to anyone behaving in this way.

Question 31

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

Answer 31

Pompous

Question 32

Love that is not returned.

Answer 32

Unrequited

Question 33

Irritate intensely.

Answer 33

Exasperate

Question 34

Pretend to be someone you are not. Put on a false show

Answer 34

Masquerade

Question 35

Try to gain the love of someone.

Answer 35

Woo

Question 36

Passionate expression of grief or sorrow

Answer 36

Lament

Question 37

To hate someone or something.

Answer 37

Loathe

Question 38

A state of disturbance, confusion or uncertainty.

Answer 38

Turmoil

Question 39

Noisy partying.

Answer 39

Revelry

Question 40

A difficult or embarrassing situation

Answer 40

Predicament

Question 41

Mayhem

Answer 41

Complete disorder and confusion. Chaos.

Question 42

Ignominy

Answer 42

Public shame or disgrace

Question 43

Soliloquy

Answer 43

A speech where a character speaks his thoughts out loud so that only the audience can hear them.

Question 44

Trepidation

Answer 44

A feeling of alarm or anxiety about something about to happen

Question 45

Concealment

Answer 45

A way or place of hiding.

Question 46

Women were not allowed | to work.

Answer 46

The reason Viola from ‘Twelfth Night’ had to pretend to be a man.

Question 47

Duel

Answer 47

An arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules.

Question 48

Affray

Answer 48

A fight in a public place.

Question 49

Elation

Answer 49

A feeling of great joy or pride.

Question 50

Opportunist

Answer 50

A person who adapts their behaviour to take advantage of the situation.