Shakespeare
Obscure Vocabulary
Poetry
AP Literary Terms
Mix Bag
100
The speech in which Hamlet debates committing suicide or homicide.
What is "To Be or Not To Be?"
100
"To seize the day"
What is Carpe Diem
100
an exaggerated statement
What is hyperbole
100
A stanza of four lines
What is a quatrain
100
Author of the Great Gatsby
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald
200
Who dies first in the double suicide in Romeo and Juliet
Who is Romeo?
200
To weaken; to lessen one's masculinity
What is emasculate
200
how many lines are in a sonnet
What is 14 lines?
200
The purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.
What is catharsis
300
The play in which Shakespeare coins the phrase "the beast with two backs"
What is Othello
300
Clear; indisputable
What is unequivocal
300
to put stress on a syllable
What is accent?
300
The process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line.
What is scansion
400
Shakespeare's own players were called this
What is the King's Players?
400
To persuade, coax, convince
What is cajole
400
A seven line poem about two opposite things.
What is a diamante
400
a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
What is stream of consciousness
500
This is the name of Shakespeare's only son
What is Hamnet?
500
To talk in one's sleep
What is somniloquy
500
The two types of sonnets.
What are Shakespearean and Petrarchean?
500
a concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance
What is aphorism
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