Shakespearean Terms
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Potpourri
Who are you?
100
Three groups of four lines
What is quatrain?
100
a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
What is a tragedy?
100
an apparent contradiction that is actually true
What is paradox?
100
the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
What is protagonist?
100
I have a heart of man and I can take down big ships..
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
200
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers
What is soliloquy aside?
200
an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
What are stage directions?
200
Poised between going on and back, pulled Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker, Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball, Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on!… Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird, He’s only flirting, crowd him, crowd him,
What is figurative language?
200
a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something
What is antagonist?
200
I like to make up my own words and kill everyone off at the end of my works.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
Two lines that rhyme
What is couplet?
300
is a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities
What is tragic hero?
300
central message that the poet wishes to convey
What is theme?
300
a warning or indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing?
300
You may see me a "crazy" and a "harlot", but all I want is to get ahead in the world.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
400
shift in thought that occurs in the third quatrain or the couplet
What is turn?
400
the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy
What is tragic flaw?
400
any expression that greatly exaggerates facts or ideas for humorous effect or for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
400
Another name for Elizabethan sonnet
What is Shakespearean sonnet?
400
We come in groups of three, and bad tidings we generally leave...
Who are the Witches?
500
abab cdcd efef gg
What is rhyme scheme?
500
inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play
What is dramatic irony?
500
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is allegory?
500
a metaphor or comparison made between two unlike things to explain an unfamiliar subject in terms of a familiar one
What is an analogy?
500
I'm big and I'm ugly, but my favorite meal is men in my belly...
Who is Grendel?
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