Reading Vocab.
Shakespeare
Literary Terms
Grammar
Reading Comp.
100
15th of the month
What is Ides?
100
Stratford-upon-Avon April 26, 1564
Where and when was Shakespeare born?
100
A long speech by a character alone on stage
What is soliloquy?
100
goes at the end of a statement
What is a period?
100
people or animals in a story
What are characters?
200
haruspex
What is a person who predicts future events by examining the internal organs of animals?
200
Globe Theatre
What theater did Shakespeare help build?
200
iambic meter ( U ' )
What are an unstressed and stressed syllable called?
200
this goes at the end of a question
What is a question mark?
200
where and when a story takes place
What is the setting?
300
sacred chickens
What is predicting the outcome of a battle?
300
Queen Elizabeth the First
Who was the ruler of England during this time?
300
prose
What is the opposite of poetry?
300
has a capital letter and punctuation
What is a complete sentence?
300
Julius Caesar
Who is the protagonist in Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
400
lightning, solar eclipse, dreams
What are omens?
400
Comedies, Histories and Tragedies
What three types of plays did Shakespeare write?
400
tragedy
What is when the main character comes to an unhappy end?
400
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What is an ellipsis? (plural is ellipses) or colloquially, dot-dot-dot also called a suspension point
400
Brutus and Cassius
Who are the antagonists in Julius Caesar?
500
Phillipi
What is the place where Brutus killed himself?
500
Sir Thomas North's 1579 translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives
What historian did Shakespeare use as a source for writing Julius Caesar?
500
Man vs Himself
What is Internal Conflict?
500
. period ? question mark ! Exclamation point , comma ; semicolon : colon - endash (dash) - emdash (hypen) () parentheses [] brackets {} braces ' apostrophe " " quotations marks . . . or *** ellipsis (ellipses plural) '
What are the fourteen puntuation marks in English Grammar?
500
Conspiracy meeting the assassination of Caesar Brutus' death
What are three possible climax points in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
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