Poetry
Time Periods
Parts of Speech
Reading
Vocabulary
100
Rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet
What is ABBAABBA CDECDE?
100
The only surviving work from the Old English period.
What is Beowulf?
100
A person, place thing or idea.
What is a noun?
100
Author of Hamlet and Othello.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
Part of a Whole
What is a synecdoche?
200
Two lines that rhyme in a poem.
What is a couplet?
200
The time when poetry incorporated nature's elements.
What is Romanticism?
200
Modifies an adjective
What is an adverb?
200
Antagonist of Othello.
Who is Iago?
200
Four lines
What is a quatrain?
300
Date and Trade
What is assonance?
300
The age of reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
Relationships between other words in a sentence, and location.
What is a preposition?
300
The most famous soliloquy
What is Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be?
300
Speaking one's thoughts aloud when alone or regardless of any listeners during a play.
What is a soliloquy?
400
A line containing five feet.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
Rebirth of learning in the fourteenth century.
What is the Renaissance?
400
Word to express a strong emotion or excitement by the speaker in a sentence.
What is an interjection?
400
Speaker of Heart of Darkness.
Who is Charley Marlow?
400
Excessive pride towards the gods, leading to one's downfall.
What is hubris?
500
Autumn moonlight, when A worm digs silently and consumes the chestnut
What is a haiku?
500
Writers from the Romantic period.
Who are Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth and Blake?
500
Takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
500
Places Jane Eyre lived.
What are Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield, Morton and Ferndean?
500
Remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended for only the audience to hear
What is an aside?
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