Parts of Speech and Shakespeare

Parts of Speech examples

100

What is the following part of speech: 

exam

What is a noun?

200

What is the following part of speech:

Hey!

What is an interjection?

300

What is the following part of speech:

around

What is a preposition?

400

What is the following part of speech:

are

What is a verb?

500

What is the following part of speech:

a

What is an adjective or article?

Parts of Speech challenges

100

Write a sentence containing two prepositions

Answers will vary

200

Give me 4 examples of adverbs

Answers will vary. 

300

Give me 3 examples of being verbs. 

Answers should include Is, Am, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been. 

400

Write a sentence of your devising that contains all eight parts of speech.

Answers will vary.

500

Coordinating Conjunctions are often grouped by the acronym FANBOYS.  Name all seven words in FANBOYS.

What is For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet and So?

Shakespeare's Plays

100

Shakespeare's plays are broken up into this many acts

What is five?

200

The Climax in a Shakespearean Play happens in which Act?

What is Act 3

300

These are the four genres or categories of play that Shakespeare wrote.

What are tragedy, comedy, history, and problem play

400

What type of poetry did Shakespeare write in?

What is a sonnet?

500

Romeo and Juliet both have cousins in the play. What are there names?

Who are Tybalt and Benvolio?

Sonnets

100

A line of Iambic Pentameter contains how many syllables?

What is 10?

200

What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

300

These last two lines also differ from the rest of the poem in their rhyme scheme. Also called this:

What is a couplet

400

The end of the poem contains a 'twist or a turn' called this:

What is a volta?

500

In Macbeth, Shakespeare chose to make the Witches' speech contrast from the other characters by making them speak in trochees (which has the same number of syllables as an iamb but reversed stress and unstressed). These characters spoke in trochaic tetrameter. How many syllables were in each line?

What is 8?

R+J Act One

100

This play contains two houses (both alike in dignity) What are there names, and pronunciation counts.

Who are the Capulets and Montagues?

200

True or False, the audience knows that Romeo and Juliet will die by the end of Act 1

True! We find out in the prologue.

300

This is the Prince's punishment if the families fight in the streets of Verona again?

What is death?

400

In Act 1 Scene 2, Lord Capulet is talking to Paris. Who is Paris

The cousin of the prince who asks to marry Juliet. 

500

This is where Romeo meets Juliet.

What is a party at Capulet's house?