Hamlet
Who wrote the play "Hamlet"?
William Shakespeare
What is a kenning
a metaphor, usually made from two different adjectives or nouns, that renames another word.
How many husbands did the Wife of Bath have?
5
True or false: the title of a poem will always tell you what the poem is about.
False
What is a phrase
A group of words without a subject and a verb. (Prepositions)
What country does the play "Hamlet" take place in?
Denmark
Who were the traveling story-tellers of the Anglo-Saxon time?
Scops
Who is the main protagonist in Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath"?
The knight
What is personification?
Giving non-human things, human traits.
What is a clause?
A group of words with a subject and a verb.
What is the name of Hamlet's closest friend?
Horatio
What is a kenning for the word sun
World-Candle
According to the Wife of Bath, what do women desire most?
Control over their husbands
What does it mean to paraphrase something
To rephrase it, word for word
True or False: Phrases determine sentence types.
False
What does Hamlet's father's ghost reveal about his death?
He was poisoned by Claudius
True or False: Anglo-Saxon literature is a blend of pagan and Christian
What types of characters was Chaucer criticizing in The Canterbury Tales
Characters in positions of power
What is connotation
the definition of a word or phrase based on the way it feels to a reader.
What part of speech is boat
noun
What is the famous quote from "Hamlet" that starts with "To be or not to be"?
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
What kind of text is Beowulf?
An epic
Chaucer changed the course of English literature because
Which words convey the ironic tone in the following excerpt:
"This is the hymn of mud the obscene, the filthy, the putrid, the vast liquid grave of our armies."
The hymn of mud
What part of speech is was
Helping or linking verb