Renaissance (Hamlet)
Which character speaks the first line of the play?
Bernardo
Who was the author of the Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
What is Jack’s real name?
Earnest
Which city was Victor Frankenstein born in?
Naples
Name 3 logical fallacies.
Sentimental appeal
Faulty causality
Hasty Generalization
Either/Or
Slippery slope
Scare tactics
Appeal to false authority
Ad hominem
Straw man
List two famous sonnet writers
Shakespeare, John Donne, Edmund Spencer…
During whose reign does the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight take place?
King Arthur
Who is the fictitious person Algernon talks about?
Bunbury
Who did Victor Frankenstein tell his tale to?
Robert Walton
Name a type of repetition
Anaphora, epistrophe…
In what country do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die?
England
Where is Gawain supposed to find the Green Knight?
The Green Chapel
Why does Jack establish two different identities?
one for the country and another for the city
Who said the following statement: “My children, my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.”
Caroline Beaufort, Frankenstein’s mom
What is the logical fallacy used in the following statement?
I understand that my opponent has a good point on overpopulation. But can we trust him? I mean, he has been single for 15 years
Ad hominem
How many people died in Hamlet?
Eight (Hamlet, Claudius, Laertes, Gertrude, Polonious, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern)
What is Gawain’s relationship to King Arthur?
King Arthur’s nephew
Why is Jack not considered an eligible husband for Gwendoline?
He did not know anything about his real parents.
What does the monster think causes Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey to be unhappy?
Poverty
Instead of saying old people, we call them senior citizens. This is an example of which rhetorical device?
Euphemism
Why did Hamlet choose not to kill Claudius when he was praying?
Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he assumes that he is praying because he doesn't want Claudius to have the luxury of going to heaven while his father, unjustly murdered, suffers in hell.
(Answers similar to this are acceptable)
How much time does Gawain have to locate the Green Knight?
Exactly one year and one day
In the play what are the full names of the men that claim to be Earnest?
Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff
Name one of the three alchemists Victor Frankenstein studied in his adolescence
Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus
Here’s a quote from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Name the rhetorical device used in this quote.
Juxtaposition