Characters
Who married Romeo and Juliet?
Friar Lawrence
Who guides Dante through Inferno?
Virgil
Who is Henry V compared to in the play? Why is this significant?
Christ
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
What are the two epics we read this year?
Beowulf and Paradise Lost
Ophelia
Who guides Dante through Paradise?
Beatrice
Who is Antonio? What does he represent in the Merchant of Venice?
A merchant, he represents Christ
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
Polonius
What is Milton's stated goal for writing Paradise Lost?
To justify the acts of God to man
Who questioned Dante in the eight sphere of heaven?
Saint Peter
Who are the sworn enemies of the Montagues?
What does King Hrothgar warn Beowulf about after his victory against Grendel?
Pride
"These violent delights have violent ends."
This pompous, yellow-stockinged steward is tricked by a forged love letter.
Malvolio
This Danish warrior mocked Beowulf
Unferth
Who is Satan chewing on in the last circle of Inferno?
Judas, Brutus, and Cassius
What words begin the play Hamlet? Why are they significant?
"Who's there?"
"Consider your origin; you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
Which of Henry's old friends dies in Henry V?
Sir John Falstaff
What were the names of the fools from Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice?
Feste and Launcelot Gobbo
Purgatorio is structured around climbing a mountain with this many terraces, one for each deadly sin
Seven
Why is Satan still suffering even while in the paradise? What is the significants of this?
Hell travels with him
"It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning."
Beowulf
Twelfth Nights famous opening line calls this "the food of love."
Music