Shakespeare's Life
When was William Shakespeare born?
April of 1564
The woman William Shakespeare married at the age of 18.
Anne Hathaway
A short speech before the play, spoken directly to the audience that helps give plot, setting, and other details.
What is a Prologue?
A humorous interlude in a tragedy, intended to relieve the dramatic tension or heighten the emotional impact by means of contrast.
What is a Comic Relief?
14 line poem with highly structured rhythm and rhyme scheme.
What is a Sonnet?
What town did William Shakespeare grow up in?
Stratford-upon-Avon
Where did Shakespeare pursue his career as an actor, poet and dramatist?
London
A group of characters who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.
What is a Chorus?
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in line.
What is a Meter?
Two opposites that are placed next to each other for poetic effect.
What is an Oxymoron?
Shakespeare's three children.
Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
At least 37
A playwright’s descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play.
What are Stage Directions?
Two lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme, usually to end a scene
What is a Couplet?
A play on of words, usually for comic effect.
What is a Pun?
The place where most of Shakespeare's plays debuted and was built by Shakespeare's acting company.
What is the Globe Theater?
The name of Shakespeare's acting company.
The Lord Chamberlain's Men / The King's Men
A four-line stanza in a poem, usually with alternate rhymes. Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a couplet.
What is a Quatrain?
A common meter in poetry and Shakespeare in which a line contains five iambs.
What is a Iambic Pentameter?
A remark made quietly so as to be heard by a select group of people and not heard by others who are nearby.
What is an Aside?
William Shakespeare's parents.
Who is John Shakespeare and Mary Shakespeare?
When did William Shakespeare die?
In April of 1616 at the age of 52.
Lines that are spoken by a character on stage to portray their inner thoughts and emotions.
What is a Soliloquy?
A rhetorical device where the author places an idea next to one which is sharply contrasted.
What is an Antithesis?
A type of long speech in which one speaker addresses a silent listener or listeners.
What is a Dramatic Monologue?