Language
Grammar
Graphology
Phonology
100
First Folio
What is the original "Complete Works of Shakespeare"?
100
True or False. The grammar of Shakespeare's time is vastly different from the grammar represented in modern day English.
False. Grammar today is very similar.
100
By the end of the Middle English period this had already evolved into its modern 26 letters
What is the alphabet
100
This is the study of sounds in a language.
What is Phonology
200
False Friends
What are words we use today but hold a different meaning in Shakespeare's writing?
200
The most distinctive feature of this is the way these words are used to express time (tense).
What is verb usage in Shakespearean time.
200
Joined letters
What is ligatures
200
There are two types of phonology, what are they?
What is segmented and non-segmented.
300
Collocations
What is formal expectancies between words (such as time unraveling, unfolding, sowing, and etc.).
300
This ending was later replaced by "s"
What is TH ending
300
These are used for opening a sentence, names, places, people, weekdays, and titles of books, films etc.
What is capitals
300
What are the two types of timing in language?
What is stress-time and syllable-timed
400
Metre
What is the purpose of changing some words such as "vast" to "vastie"?
400
Capitalization is sometimes used for these, unlike today.
What are common nouns.
400
& and &c. are examples of what convention used for space saving?
What is Logograms
400
This term is used when describing how we change our speech depending on who we are talking to.
What is "Accommodation"
500
314
What is the number of "unwords" Shakespeare is credited with inventing?
500
These were used simply to add emphasis or a more negative meaning unlike today
What are double negatives.
500
Correct spelling was very important during Shakespeare's time. (true or false)
What is False
500
This phrase refers to the specific sound that English has in its stress-based metre
What is "The Heartbeat of English"
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