Literary Devices + Sonnet defining features
Author
Words
Random Trivia
100
How many lines are in a sonnet?
14
100
Who wrote sonnet 1?
William Shakespeare
100
Definition:
a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.
Heir
100
Complete the lyrics:
From the screen to the ring, to the pen, to the ____
Credit: KSI - Thick Of It
king
200
what do you call a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables
Iambic Pentameter
200
What is Shakespeare's full name?
William Shakespeare
200
Definition:
a prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions. Numerous hybrids and cultivars have been developed and are widely grown as ornamentals.
Rose
200
What is the Chinese name of the popular Chinese shortform video app: Red Note
Xiaohongshu
300
Guess the literary device:
Definition: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
300
Name any of Shakespeare's plays
- All's Well That Ends Well
- As You Like It
- Comedy of Errors
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Measure for Measure
- Merchant of Venice
- Merry Wives of Windsor
- Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Taming of the Shrew
- Tempest
- Twelfth Night
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Winter's Tale
- Henry IV, Part I
- Henry IV, Part II
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part I
- Henry VI, Part II
- Henry VI, Part III
- Henry VIII
- King John
- Pericles
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Julius Caesar
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Othello
- Romeo and Juliet
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
300
Definition:
An official messanger bringing news
Herald
300
What does IQ stand for
Intelligence quotient
400
Guess the literary device:
Definition: a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
Paradox
400
In what era was Shakespeare alive?
Victorian Era
400
Definition:
Unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous
Synonym: Stingy
Niggarding
400
Guess a number between 1 to 3
1
500
What was the Rhyme Scheme for Sonnet 1?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
500
In Shakespeare's famous play: Romeo and Juliet, what is the surname of Juliet?
Capulet
500
Definition:
A showy and purely ornamental thing
Gaudy
500
The 
-intercepts, 
and 
, of two perpendicular lines intersecting at the point 
have a sum of zero. What is the area of 
?
(D) 60