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A form of social organization in which the father or oldest male rules the family. More generally, this term also signifies rule by a man. An example is Egeus's right to "dispose of" his daughter.
What is patriarchy?
100
A wedding or nuptial song/ poem, such as Juliet's in 3.2.
What is an epithalamium?
100
The phrase "wild goose chase" appears for the first time in this Shakespeare play.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
100
"By giving liberties unto thine eyes. / Examine other beauties." (RJ 1.1.230-231)
What is Benvolio's advice to Romeo? This advice is situated within the Petrarchan tradition of falling in love at first sight.
100
"Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword, / And won thy love, doing thee injuries; / But I will wed thee in another key, /With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling." (MND 1.1.16-20_
What is Theseus's desire to offset the violence with which he conquered Hippolyta with the merriment of a play?
200
A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter. The Petrarchan form features the unrequited love (at first sight) of a man for a woman who is known for her beauty or virtue. The English form can have similar themes, such as the one Romeo and Juliet share in 1.5.
What is a sonnet?
200
Unmerited divine assistance given to human for their regeneration or sanctification. Hal extends Falstaff this after Falstaff takes credit for killing Hotspur, evoking the Christian concept of grace from God.
What is grace?
200
The description of an eye as an eyeball first occurs in this Shakespeare play.
What is Midsummer Night's Dream?
200
"Such comfort as do lusty young men feel / When well-appareled April on the heel / Of limping Winter treads, even such delight / Among the fresh fennel buds shall you this night/ Inherit at my house." (RJ 1.2.26-30)
What is Capulet's description of the differences between the younger and older generations? Here Capulet compares the vitality and energy of youth, to the "limping" elders.
200
"The spring, the summer, / The holding autumn, angry winter, change / Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, / By their increase, now knows not which is which. /and this same progeny of evils comes / From our debate, from our dissension" (MND 2.1.11-116)
What is Titania's claim that the devastating natural disasters are the result of the quarrel she and Oberon are having over the boy?
300
The repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses. In his speech to Theseus, for example, Egeus uses the phrases "This man hath my consent" and "This man hath bewitched"
What is anaphora?
300
Rejection by God (Hal rejects Falstaff's request for assistance if he is wounded on the battlefield)
What is reprobation?
300
Ranging from "Shappere" to "Shaxberd," there are over ___ variations of Shakespeare's name in legal documents of his day (William Shakespeare, our modern spelling, is not found among these documents).
What is 80?
300
"Even or odd, of all days in the year, / Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen. / Susan and she (God rest all Christian souls!) / were of an age. Well, Susan is with God; / She was too good for me." (RJ 1.3.16-20)
What is nurse's speech to Lady Capulet? In this speech, the nurse subtly critiques Juliet's mother for not knowing her daughter's age. In addition, this speech indicates the privileged status of the Capulets, who could afford a wet nurse who had just given birth for their daughter.
300
"Yet herein will I imitate the sun, / Who doth permit the base contagious clouds / To smother up his beauty from the world, / That, when he please again to be himself,/ Being wanted, he may be more wond'red at" (1H4 1.2.201-205)
What is Hal's unveiling of his plan to stage his transformation from profligate to redeemed and responsible king?
400
A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated. Mercutio statement, "A plague a both your houses" in 3.1.93, is an example.
What is metonymy?
400
The study of the nature and person of Jesus. Hal's willingness to sacrifice himself for the others on the battlefield symbolizes Jesus' willingness to sacrifice himself.
What is Christology?
400
the number of plays Shakespeare wrote
What is 37
400
"And what obscured in this fair volume lies / Find written in the mar gent of his eyes. /This precious book of love, this unbound lover, / To beautify him only lacks a cover" (RJ 1.3.85-88)
What is Lady's Capulet's encouragement to Juliet to consider marrying marriage? Lady Capulet upholds the patriarchal structure which values men for their substance and women for their decorative, rather than substantive, role.
400
"When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, / Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, / Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dressed, / Fresh as a bridegroom" (1H4 1.3.30-33)
What is Hotspur's rationale for denying King Henry the prisoners? In this speech, Hotspur's masculinity, tied up with warfare, is contrasted to the masculinity of the man of the king's court.
500
The belief that everything that will happen has been decided by God or fate. Romeo and Juliet are "star-crossed lovers," for example.
What is predestination?
500
The study of the religious doctrines of salvation (Is Falstaff redeemable?)
What is soteriology?
500
These hastily written lines, "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare, / To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, / and cursed be he that moves my bones" appear where?
What is Shakespeare's grave stone?
500
" 'Tis almost morning. / I would have thee gone-- / And yet no farther than a wanton's bird" (RJ 2.2.176-177)
What is Juliet's fantasy for Romeo, a fantasy in which their roles are reversed?
500
"The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing. / Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:/ And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect / Takes it in might, not merit" (MND 5.1.89-92)
What is Theseus's plan to gain Hippolyta's affection by being kind to the actors, despite their horrible performance?
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