Shakespeare
Characters
Characters II
Figurative Langue Definitions
Figurative Language Examples
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Shakespeare built this in 1599 in London.
What is the Globe Theatre?
100
Juliet's cousin; he hates the Montagues.
Who is Tybalt?
100
Marries Romeo and Juliet, and makes the lovers' doomed plan.
Who is Friar Laurence?
100
A play on two words.
What is a pun?
100
The literary device in "Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon/Who is already sick and pale with grief"
What is Metaphor (Juliet = Sun) OR Personification (moon personified as being ill with jealousy about how fair Juliet is)?
200
The four types of plays Shakespeare wrote.
What are Comedies, Tragedies, Tragi-comedies, and Histories?
200
Falls in love easily and lets his emotions rule his judgment.
Who is Romeo?
200
Described as a "rich jewel in an Ehtiopes ear."
Who is Juliet?
200
Personification does this.
What is gives human qualities to an inanimate object?
200
The literary device found in "And, lips, O you/the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss / a dateless bargain to engrossing death."
What is metaphor (lips = doors of breath)?
300
Shakespeare is credited with introducing approximately this number of words to the English language.
What is 1700?
300
Mercutio calls Tybalt by this name.
What is the Prince of Cats?
300
Is closer to Juliet than her own mother.
Who is the Nurse?
300
A simile is defined as this.
What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?
300
The literary device found in "Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this."
What is oxymoron?
400
Shakespeare's company was known by these two names.
What were The King's Men and Lord Chamberlain's Men?
400
Dies from grief near the end of the play.
Who is Lady Montague?
400
Connotation is...
What is the implied meaning of a word?
400
Literary device found in "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear"
What is a simile (Juliet = rich jewel)?
500
Shakespeare's "Middle Period" included these three titles.
What were Love's Labor's Lost; A Midsummer Night's Dream ; The Merchant of Venice; Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; and The Merry Wives of Windsor?
500
Tells Romeo and Juliet is "dead."
Who is Balthasar?
500
The lines "The night before thy wedding day hath death lain with thy wife" are said by whom to whom?
Who is Lord Capulet to Paris?
500
If you juxtapose something, you are...
What is two things placed side by side for effect?
500
The literary device found in "Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark."
What is metaphor (poison = unsavoury guide, pilot / Romeo's life or body = seasick weary bark to be smashed into the rocks)?
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