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Literary & Vocab. Terms
Sonnets
History
Macbeth
100
"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."
What is Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare?
100
This term begins with the letter "i" has 11 letters, and means obstacles, obstructions.
What is impediments?
100
In this sonnet, the poet dwells on the fact that he is getting older. "That time of year thou mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang, Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang."
What is Sonnet 73 by Shakespeare?
100
During the Renaissance time period this took place, which was a reformation of religion.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
100
Who said, "I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked."
Who is Macbeth?
200
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
What is Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare?
200
This term begins with the letter "s" has 5 letters, and means reject by showing contempt.
What is scorn?
200
The Shepherd makes a lot of promises to the Nymph. What is her response?
What is the nymph finds the promises unrealistic and states that they will change with the seasons?
200
In 1534 King Henry VIII declared himself this.
What is head of the Church of England?
200
This is a conversation between which two characters? "How came she by that light?" "Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually. Tis her command."
Who are the Doctor & the Gentlewoman?
300
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away; Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey."
What is Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser?
300
This term begins with the letter "t" has 9 letters and means breaking of faith, betrayal of trust.
What is treachery?
300
This was the MAIN theme for poets who wrote poems during the Renaissance time period. "To The Virgins to Make Much of Time" is a good example.
What is CARPE DIEM?
300
This woman was the mother of Queen Elizabeth.
Who was Anne Boleyn?
300
This is the turning point in Act III that ensures Macbeth's end. This is the point where Macbeth commits the ultimate treachery.
What is he murders Banquo?
400
"My love is like ice, and I to fire; How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire? But harder grows the more I her entreat?"
What is Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spenser?
400
This term begins with the letter "s" has 5 letters and means laziness, idleness.
What is sloth?
400
Whoso List to Hunt was written about this woman.
Who is Anne Boleyn?
400
This queen was arguably the best leader in England's history.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
400
Who said, "Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird sisters promised, and I fear Thou play'dst most foully for't." Scene 1, Act III
Who is Banquo?
500
"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields."
What is The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe?
500
This is the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have a similar grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
500
These are the main characteristics of Shakespeare's sonnets (3).
What is rhymed iambic pentameter, 14 lines, 3 quatrains with a couplet at the end?
500
King Henry VIII had many wives. This is the correct order of his wives by name and by fate!
What is Catherine- Divorced, Anne-Beheaded, Jane- Died, Anne-Divorced, Catherine-Beheaded, Catherine-Survived?
500
Who said, "This murderous shaft that's shot Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse; And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, But shift away." Scene 3, Act II
Who is Malcolm?
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