Shakespeare's Language
Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
Common Errors
7th Grade
100

Iambic pentameter has _____________ of syllables total per line. Iambic pentameter_________ pairs of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables

Iambic pentameter has 10 of syllables total per line. Iambic pentameter 5 pairs of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables

100

What is foreshadowing?

 A stylistic feature which suggestions or warnings about events to come are given

100

Please list the different types of imagery and their corresponding senses. 

Olfactory-- smell; Visual-- sight; Gustatory-- taste; Auditory-- hearing; Tactile-- touch

100

Sentence, run-on, or fragment?

1) If she decides to be a doctor.

2) To keep from using foam cups, my uncle Lewis carries a reusable water bottle. 

3) An Italian physician played a very important role in the development of manual speech I had never heard of him. 

1) Frag

2) Sentence

3) RO

100

What are the ingredients in an analytical paragraph?

1) Topic Sentence

2) Context for Evidence (x2)

3) Evidence (x2)

4) Close-Language- Analysis (x2)

5) Reader's Reaction (x2) 

6) Author's Purpose (x2)

7) Summary Sentence

200

The most common type of sentence pattern in English is...

Shakespeare also used... 

And he occasionally used...

SVO, SOV, OVS

200

What is an oxymoron? 

What is juxtaposition?

OXYMORON: a word or group of words that is self-contradicting, ex: bittersweet

JUXTAPOSITION: juxtaposition is when you place two concepts or objects next to or near each other, thereby highlighting their innate differences and similarities 

200

Please list the three types of irony.

Dramatic, situational, verbal

200

Choose the verb that agrees with the subject.

This information (sounds, sound) complicated, but it is easy to learn and fun to use.

Another cloud, which combines the features of nimbus and stratus clouds, (are, is) called nimbostratus. 

1) Sounds

2) Is

200

What is one SF in this extract and the corresponding AP and RR?

ROMEO

[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

Answers will vary-- Semantic field of religion...

300

Blank verse, Prose, or Rhymed verse?

MERCITIO: Thou art like one of those fellows that, when he enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table and says “God send me no need of thee!” and, by the operation of the second cup, draws it on the drawer when indeed there is no need.

Prose

300

What is a simile?

What is a metaphor? 

A simile is a comparison using "like" or "as"...


A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two non-similar things.

 

300

What is the difference between a foil and a flat character?

A foil is a character that stands in contrast to another character and a flat character is a character that does not change. 

300

Identify the pronouns that agree with their antecedents.

Neither of my twin brothers has had (his, their) first haircut.

Did your brother and your cousin Adam intend to exchange (his, their) tickets? 

1) His

2) Their

300

How can this topic sentence be re-written to make it more specific?

"Whitman also employs figurative language to reinforce the poem’s themes."

Poem: "Song of the Open Road"

Theme: independence, exploration

SF(FL): metaphor, imagery

In "Song of the Open Road", Whitman also employs figurative language, such as metaphor and imagery, to reinforce the poem’s themes of independence and exploration. 

400

Blank Verse, Prose, or Rhymed Verse?

MERCUTIO

She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes                 In shape no bigger than an agate stone                   On the forefinger of an alderman,                             Drawn with a team of little atomi                             Over men’s noses as they lie asleep.                         Her wagon spokes made of long spinners’ legs,         The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,                   Her traces of the smallest spider’s web,                 Her collars of the moonshine’s watery beams,           Her whip of cricket’s bone, the lash of film,               Her wagoner a small gray-coated gnat,                     Not half so big as a round little worm

Blank Verse

400

What is the difference between theme and mood?

A theme is an idea that pervades a work a literature. Mood refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story. 

400

Please list the elements of plot mountain in order...

1) Exposition

2) Inciting Incident/Conflict

3) Rising Action

4) Climax

5) Falling Action

6) Resolution

400

Choose the correct form of the modifier in parenthesis. 1) The original off-Broadway production of The Fantastics had the (longer, longest) run of any musical on Broadway. 

2) If the play comes to your town, you might find it (more, most) enjoyable than to see a movie. 

1) longest

2) more

400

What is a SF and what is the RR?


These violent delights have violent ends,

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,

Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey

Is loathsome in his own deliciousness

And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Oxymoron, juxtaposition, imagery (visual, gustatory)

RR: too much of a good thing can be very bad. Be moderate...

500

Blank Verse, Prose, Rhymed Verse?

ROMEO

Oh, 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,                Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.            So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows              As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.                 The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,  And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.  Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!             For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.

Rhymed Verse

500

What is the difference between direct and indirect characterization? Give examples in addition to the definition.

Direct characterization tells us about the characteristics of the character, whereas indirect characterization shows us information about the character.

500

What is the difference between third person limited narrative perspective and third person omniscient narrative perspective?

Limited-- we are only able to follow one character and know only about this character.


Omniscient-- we are like god; we know everything about everything

500

Please choose the correct word or word group in parenthesis to make the sentences below into standard English.

1) Everyone (accept, except) John thinks that they weather will be (allright, all right) for the powwow. 

2) I (try and, try to) go to all my aunt's softball games because her team plays so (good, well)

1) Except, all right

2) Try to, well

500

What is a SF in this extract and what is the RR or the AP?


CAPULET 

How now, how now, chopt-logic! What is this?

'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'

And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,

Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,

But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,

To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,

Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.

Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!

You tallow-face!

Repetition-- We understand that he is angry... Shakespeare is also trying to show the rift in their relationship. 

M
e
n
u