Phrases
Vocabulary
Words
Poetry Techniques
Poetry Form
100
Poet, play writer, actor
What is Shakespeare's occupation?
100
One word Shakespeare invented
What is (any word of his works)
100
Play on words, sometimes on different sense or on the same sound of different words
What is a pun?
100
The way Shakespeare wrote his plays
What are poems?
100
Imagery
What is the use of words to create pictures in the mind?
200
Dramatist and poetic writing style
What are plays in poetry?
200
On average, 5000 to 15 000 words
What is the vocabulary of a person today?
200
Bawdy
What are naughty jokes?
200
Three aspects of language that make Shakespeare a poet
What are rhythm, imagery and rhyme?
200
Used to add imagery and meaning to his work; often to Greke mythology and the Bible
What are allusions?
300
A famous Shakespeare phrase
What is (any phrase will do)
300
30 000 words
What is Shakespeare's vocabulary?
300
Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum, Peodcyninga, prym gefrunon Hu da aepelingas ellen fremedon
What is Old English?
300
Prose
What is ordinary speech?
300
An example of Shakespeare's patterns of images
What is: Hamlet- disease; Macbeth- blood; OR Romeo and Juliet- light and contrast with darkness?
400
"Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it."
What is Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
400
Performing with skill, proficiency and mastery; especially when using one's hands
What is dexterously?
400
Common words in Middle English
What is (e.g. hath, thee, thou)?
400
Rhyming couplets
What are two lines that rhyme and have the same rhythm?
400
14 lines, 3 quadrants (4 lines each) rhyming abab, cdcd, efef; followed by a rhyming couplet GG
What are Shakespearean sonnets?
500
Salad days
What is the period when one is young and inexperienced?
500
How Shakespeare invented words
What is combining words, adding beginnings or endings, changing words into different parts of speech and minting brand new words?
500
Malapropisms
What is creating humour by having characters use words incorrectly?
500
The most common dramatic form of the Renaissance; the natural heartbeat rhythm of words; consisting of five per line
What is iambic pentameter?
500
"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"
What is Romeo first seeing Juliet and comparing her beauty to the light of the torches (in Capulet's great hall)?
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