Final: Shake terms

Question 1

River running through London

Answer 1

Thames (tems)

Question 2

Shakespeare’s most Widely taught plays

Answer 2

Romeo and Juliet

Julius Caesar

Question 3

Two comedies

Answer 3

A midsummer nights dream

The merchant of Venice

Question 4

Two histories

Answer 4

Henry V

King John

Question 5

Aside

Answer 5

a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.

Question 6

Soliloquy

Answer 6

Long speech
Usually alone
Reveals characters thoughts

Question 7

Sonnet

Answer 7

14 line poem written by Shakespeare

Question 8

Couplet

Answer 8

Last Two lines of a sonnet

Question 9

Quatrain

Answer 9

Four lines of a sonnet

Question 10

Exposition

Answer 10

Setting up of the story, background info

Question 11

Rising action

Answer 11

Leading up to the climax

Question 12

Crisis/turning point

Answer 12

Climax

Question 13

Falling action

Answer 13

On the way back down

Question 14

Denouement

Answer 14

Settling of the plot, the end

Question 15

History

Answer 15

Often set in the past

Question 16

Comedy

Answer 16

Intended to make the audience laugh

Question 17

Tragedy

Answer 17

Intended to make the audience sad

Question 18

Blank verse

Answer 18

Verse without rhyme, usually uses iambic pentameter

Question 19

Iambic pentameter

Answer 19

5 iambs, meter that Shakespeare wrote in

Question 20

Rhythm

Answer 20

Alternating stress and spun stressed syllables, no specific order necessary

Question 21

Meter

Answer 21

A pattern of rhythm, a pattern

Question 22

Simile

Answer 22

A comparison using like or as

Question 23

Personification

Answer 23

Giving something personal traits and characteristics when they are not alive

Question 24

Metaphor

Answer 24

A comparison that doesn’t use like or as

Question 25

Figurative language

Answer 25

Similes, metaphors, hyperboles, a type of language using figures of speech

Question 26

Implied metaphor

Answer 26

A type of metaphor that compares two unlike things but does so without saying one of them

Question 27

Enjambment

Answer 27

When a line of poetry continues directly into the next line

Question 28

Bard

Answer 28

A poet

Question 29

Elizabethan age

Answer 29

Time during Shakespeare's life when queen Elizabeth ruled

Question 30

Famous theater

Answer 30

The globe

Question 31

Home town

Answer 31

Stratford on Avon

Question 32

Wife

Answer 32

Anne Hathaway

Question 33

How should we write plays?

Answer 33

Italicized

Question 34

Ben Jonson said...

Answer 34

Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time

Question 35

Monarchs during the time

Answer 35

Elizabeth I | James I

Question 36

Theatre groups

Answer 36

Kings men | Lord chamberlains men

Question 37

Possible author of Shakespeare's plays?

Answer 37

Edward DeVere

Question 38

Oxfordians

Answer 38

Believe that the plays attributed to William Shakespeare are actually written by Edward DeVere

Question 39

Stratfordians

Answer 39

Believe that William Shakespeare wrote the plays

Question 40

First Folio

Answer 40

Published collection of William Shakespeare's plays from 1623

Question 41

Penny Gnaves and groundlings

Answer 41

Poor people, loved plays, payed one penny to stand on the ground to watch the plays

Question 42

Four great tragedies

Answer 42

``` Han,et Macbeth King Lear Othello Julia Ceasar ```

Question 43

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

Answer 43

Marcellus

Question 44

"Frailty, thy name is woman"

Answer 44

Hamlet

Question 45

"A little more than kin and less than kind"

Answer 45

Hamlet

Question 46

"O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt"

Answer 46

Hamlet

Question 47

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

Answer 47

Polonius

Question 48

"This above all; thine own self be true"

Answer 48

Polonius

Question 49

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

Answer 49

Hamlet

Question 50

"The plays the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King"

Answer 50

Hamlet

Question 51

"What a piece of work is man"

Answer 51

Hamlet

Question 52

"Words, words, words"

Answer 52

Hamlet

Question 53

"More matter, with less art"

Answer 53

Gertrude

Question 54

Get thee to a nunnery

Answer 54

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 55

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go

Answer 55

Claudius

Question 56

Hoist with his own petard

Answer 56

Hamlet

Question 57

I must be cruel only to be kind

Answer 57

Hamlet

Question 58

To be, or not to be? That is the question

Answer 58

Hamlet

Question 59

The lady protests too much, methinks

Answer 59

Gertrude

Question 60

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action

Answer 60

Hamlet

Question 61

Ay, there's the rub

Answer 61

Hamlet

Question 62

Not so my lord. I am too much i' the sun

Answer 62

Hamlet

Question 63

Brevity is the soul of wit

Answer 63

Polonious

Question 64

Sweets to the sweet. Farewell!

Answer 64

Gertrude

Question 65

Alas, poor yorick

Answer 65

Hamlet

Question 66

Good night, sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Answer 66

Horatio