Sonnets
Romeo and Juliet
Carpe diem/imagery
Story of an Hour
Words of love/proverbs
100
14 lines
What is the length of a sonnet
100
Verona.
Where is the play set?
100
Seize the day.
What is the English translation of Carpe diem?
100
Louise Mallard.
What is the name of the female protagonist?
100
Shotgun wedding.
What do you call a wedding that has been forced through, possibly due to pregnancy?
200
A quatrain
What is a four-line stanza?
200
Montagues and Capulets.
What is the name of the two fighting families?
200
Virgins and a mistress.
Who are the "receivers" of the two carpe diem poems, by Robert Herrick and Andrew Marwell?
200
In a railroad disaster.
What is the way in which Brentley Mallard is said to have died?
200
Marriage of convenience.
What do you call a marriage that is purely a practical arrangement?
300
Italian poet, Petrarch/Petrarca.
Who inspired the English writers to produce sonnets?
300
Friar Lawrence.
Who married Romeo and Juliet?
300
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
What is a metaphor of the passing of time?/ what is a personification of time?
300
Louise weeps and goes to her room.
What is Louise's intial reaction to the news of her husband's death?
300
Unrequited love.
What is the kind of love called when only one person is infatuated, and his love is not reciprocated by the other person?
400
Couplet.
What is the term for the last two lines in the sonnet?
400
Juliet drinks a magic potion to pass out so everybody thinks she is dead.
What is Juliet's way of avoiding the wedding with Paris?
400
Alitteration.
What is the repetition of consonant sounds in a sequence of nearby words? (Once upon a midnight dreary, I walked along, weak and weary.
400
"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.
What does Louise feel like when she has realized Brentley is dead?
400
Star-crossed lovers.
What is a pair of lovers whose relationship is twarted by outside forces?
500
Iambic pentameter.
What metre is often used to write sonnets?
500
The two families promise never to fight again.
What is the result of the two lovers' death?
500
Make the best of life by living it to the full and not simply waiting for death.
What is the message of Marwell's poem, To His Coy Mistress?
500
Emancipation/personal freedom/marriage as a prison/lack of passion/ love-sorrow-joy-shock
What are the themes in Kate Chopin's short story?
500
To be on cloud nine.
What describes the feeling you have when you are head over heels in love?
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