LITERARY TERMS
SHAKESPEARE
FOREIGN WORDS
POETRY
ANYTHING
100
the fable of Tybalt the King of the Cats in "Romeo and Juliet"
What is an allusion?
100
Stratford-Upon- Avon
What is the town hwere Shakespeare was born?
100
Given full access or priviledges.
What is carte blanche?
100
Wodrs in a poem that make the sound they are describing.
What is onomatopeia?
100
The word a pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent?
200
When the audience or reader knows something that the characters pretend that they do not.
What is dramatic irony?
200
This is the time when Shakespeare wrote his plays.
What is the Elizabethan Era?
200
A dangerous female.
What is femme fatale?
200
The repitition of consanant sounds in nearby words in a poem.
What is alliteration?
200
When the police station was robbed, it was this type of irony.
What is situational irony?
300
The comparison of dissimilar items using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
300
This is the name of the theatre that Shakespeare was a part owner of.
What is the Globe Theatre?
300
Something thought to be new or cutting edge such as technology or fashion.
What is avant-garde?
300
A poem with 14 lines and an established rhyme and rhythm pattern.
What is a sonnet?
300
Giving human characteristics to non-human objects.
What is personification?
400
A type or category of literary work.
What is genre?
400
The entertainment section of London at the time was on the south banks of this river.
What is the Thames?
400
Lterally "the love of life".
What is joie de vivre?
400
The two rhyming lines at the end of a sonnet are called this.
What is a rhyming couplet?
400
A speech given by an actor to reveal his/her thoughts, feelings, or emotions.
What is a soliloquy?
500
The part of the plot line where characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
500
The use of words that sound alike but mean something differnet to make a joke.
What is a pun?
500
Something made specifically for that day.
What is du jour?
500
The four line stanzas in an English sonnet are called this.
What is a quatrain?
500
A long poem that tells the story of a hero and gives information about how a culture lived and what they valued.
What is an epic?
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