What is the term for the literary device in which the reader knows more about a situation than the characters do?
What is dramatic irony?
100
What types of plays did Shakespeare write?
What are tragedies, histories, and comedies?
100
The following lines from Act IV, scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet are an example of what literary device?
Nurse: Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up; /For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.
What is a pun?
100
What is a foil?
What is a person that has character traits that are different from another character that high lights those differences.
Bonus: Who is Romeo's foil?
100
“I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth/ And yet, to my teen, be it spoke, I have but four”
What is Nurse
200
What is the difference between a soliloquy and a monologue?
What is a soliloquy is unheard by other characters, whereas a monologue is heard by other characters.
200
Romeo and Juliet is made up of ____ which are broken into smaller parts called___________.
What are 5 acts, scences
200
Which literary elements does Shakespeare sometimes use to lighten the mood of a play?
What are puns and comic relief?
200
Give an example of an oxymoron.
What is feather of lead, heavy lightness, mishapen chaos in well seeming forms, fiend angelical
200
"Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man.”
What is Romeo
300
In what way are a soliloquy and an aside similar?
What is both are unheard by other characters.
300
Define a Shakespearean tragedy
A Shakespearean tragedy is a play in which the main character is a noble figure who suffers a dramatic reversal of fortune.
300
What is the term used for performing Shakespeare as it was done 400 years ago?
What is original pronunciation?
300
What is the meter of all of Shakespeare's writing?
What is iambic pentameter?
300
Tybalt wanted to kill you, but you killed him. There art thou happy.. The law that threatened your death became your friend and gave you exile. There are thou happy.
What is Friar Lawrence
400
Poetry with rhythm (usually iambic 5) without a rhyme scheme.
What is blank verse.
400
What is the role of the prologue?
What is an introduction to the play, introduces thematic elements; it is NOT a summary.
400
What type of English is Shakespeare written in?
What is Early Modern English
400
List 3 themes of Romeo and Juliet.
What is Love, hate, fate, loyalty...
400
"No, it's not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door. But it's enough, it will serve. Ask for me tomorrow and you'll find me a grave man."
What is Mercutio?
500
A character trait that motivates the hero to make choices that lead to his downfall
What is tragic flaw?
500
In Shakespearean tragedy, which elements contribute most to the downfall of the tragic hero?
What is character flaws, fate or both
500
Define slant rhyme. Did Shakespeare write in slant rhyme?
What is words that almost rhyme or appear similar due to spelling; no he did not, we have been reading it wrong.
Bonus: What Sonnet did I teach you to show you the examples of this?