A poem of 14 verses with a set rhyme scheme. Shakespeare is famous for writing this kind of poem.
What is a sonnet?
100
The name of the strict hierarchy that stretched from God down to the lowest things in existence, according to common belief in the Elizabethan Age.
What is the Chain of Being?
100
The name given in Australia to the children of mixed blood who were taken away from their families between 1910 and 1971.
What is The Stolen Generation?
100
Den grammatiske betegnelse for overensstemmelse mellem subjekt og verballed.
Hvad er (verbal)kongruens?
100
The name of the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
200
The English translation of the Danish term “alvidende fortæller”.
What is an omniscient narrator?
200
The name of the Scottish king who was killed by Macbeth.
Who is Duncan?
200
The main character in many of Hemingway’s short stories.
Who is Nick Adams?
200
En ordklasse som på engelsk ikke kan efterfølges af en that-sætning eller en infinitiv.
Hvad er præpositioner?
200
The author of the Twilight Saga.
Who is Stephenie Meyer?
300
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (bogstaveligt) refer to, in order to suggest a similarity.
What is a metaphor?
300
The character who killed Macbeth.
Who is Macduff?
300
The year when Queen Victoria died – and the Victorian Age ended (+ / - 2 years).
What is 1901?
300
Den type genitiv som på engelsk skal anvendes ved ting og begreber.
Hvad er of-genitiv?
300
The country that won the 2002 FIFA World Cup in football.
What is Brazil?
400
The literary term for time, place and (social) environment.
What is the setting?
400
A monologue spoken by a character who is alone on the stage. It reveals his/her inner thoughts and motives, and so discloses what the character is really like.
What is a soliloquy?
400
The author of the short story “My Son the Fanatic”.
Who is Hanif Kureshi?
400
Den ordklasse som på engelsk kun undtagelsesvis kan stå alene uden støtteord.
Hvad er adjektiver?
400
The name of the astronaut who became the second man on the moon.
Who is Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin Jr.?
500
The English translation of the Danish term “strofe”.
What is a stanza?
500
Unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter – found in the majority of Shakespeare’s plays.
What is blank verse?
500
The distance in kilometres which the two sisters walked to return home in the film Rabbit Proof Fence (+/- 500 km).
What is 2400?
500
Et verbum som er bøjet i person, tid og tal – og som der kun må være ét af i en sætning.
Hvad er et finit verbum?
500
The actor who plays Oscar Wilde in the film “Wilde”.