William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in:
1. London
2. Stratford
3. Bradford
2. Stratford
What was the first Gothic novel and who was it written by?
1. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
2. Frankenstein by Marry Shelley
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker
1. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
I Hear America Singing
BY WALT WHITMAN
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, the carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, the mason singing his as he makes ready for...
How many verses does this poem have?
1 verse
There are no rhymes in this poem.
What are conjunctions?
Words used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if)
He married:
1. Anne Boleyn
2. Catherine Howard
3. Anne Hathaway
3. Anne Hathaway
Where do gothic novels take place?
Far off lands, dark castles, monasteries, nunneries, dungeons, old rundown buildings or wild landscapes
What is a perspective of a story, plot and setting?
The perspective is who tells the story.
Plot is what happens in the story.
Setting is where and when it happens.
What are prepositions? Give 4 examples.
Words governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause are called prepositions.
on, at, above, with
How do we divide Shakespeare's plays?
1. comedies
2. tragedies
3. history plays
Why is Frankenstein considered as a Gothic novel?
Frankenstein is considered a Gothic novel due to the presence of evil, mystery, supernatural, dark aspects of life and the romanticism associated to the Goth genre. The main protagonist is isolated.
The gothic theme of ugliness is dominant in the novel. In Frankenstein, the creature is described as ugly and hideous in appearance.
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm is called a .................. .
free verse
What are the 7 fanboys?
FANBOYS is a mnemonic device, which stands for the coordinating conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So.
Answer the questions from Shakespeare's play:
1. Why did Macbeth kill Banquo?
2. Who killed Macbeth at the end of the play?
3. Who becomes king at the end of the play?
1. Worried that Banquo's descendants and not his own will rule Scotland, Macbeth sends two men, and then a Third Murderer, to kill Banquo and his son Fleance.
2.Macduff kills Macbeth because Macbeth is guilty of treachery and has consumed too much power and ambition.
3. Macduff triumphs and brings the head of the traitor Macbeth to Malcolm. Malcolm declares peace and goes to Scone to be crowned king.
What are typical traits of a Gothic protagonist:
Typical Traits of a Gothic Protagonist:
What is a haiku?
It's a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
From across the lake,
Past the black winter trees,
Faint sounds of a flute.
- Richard Wright
What are the 5 types of poems:
Haiku, ballads, sonnets, free verse, limerick
Analyze the following characters from Shakespeare's play:
Queen Titania
Hermia
Helena
These are characters from the play called..?
Titania
The beautiful queen of the fairies, Titania resists the attempts of her husband, Oberon, to make a knight of the young Indian prince that she has been given. Titania’s brief, potion-induced love for Nick Bottom, whose head Puck has transformed into that of a donkey, yields the play’s foremost example of the contrast motif.
Hermia
Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. Hermia is in love with Lysander and is a childhood friend of Helena. As a result of the fairies’ mischief with Oberon’s love potion, both Lysander and Demetrius suddenly fall in love with Helena. Self-conscious about her short stature, Hermia suspects that Helena has wooed the men with her height. By morning, however, Puck has sorted matters out with the love potion, and Lysander’s love for Hermia is restored.
Helena
A young woman of Athens, in love with Demetrius. Demetrius and Helena were once betrothed, but when Demetrius met Helena’s friend Hermia, he fell in love with her and abandoned Helena. Lacking confidence in her looks, Helena thinks that Demetrius and Lysander are mocking her when the fairies’ mischief causes them to fall in love with her.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1.Why does Frankenstein create the Monster?
2.How does the monster learn to read and speak?
3.Who is Robert Walton?
4. How does Dr Frankestein die?
1.Why does Frankenstein create the Monster? Frankenstein believes that by creating the Monster, he can discover the secrets of “life and death,” create a “new species,” and learn how to “renew life.” He is motivated to attempt these things by ambition.
2. The Monster learns to speak by spying on the DeLacey family. The Monster learns to read when he finds three books abandoned on the ground: Paradise Lost , Plutarch's Lives and The Sorrows of Werter. These books point to major themes of the novel.
3. Robert Walton is a polar explorer who meets Victor Frankenstein in the Arctic. It is to Walton that Victor tells his story and he, in turn, writes the narrative down in a series of letters to his sister, Margaret Saville, back in England.
4. Victor Frankenstein—the scientist who created the monster often incorrectly referred to as "Frankenstein"—dies from a severe case of pneumonia. Frankenstein contracts his case of pneumonia after chasing his monster into the Arctic and falling through a patch of ice into freezing water.
What are the elements of plot?
Exposition
Conflict
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
This is the example of a .............. .
Sonnet