VOCABULARY
Week 8
Week 8
Spell _______
inflection
Spell _________
onerous
Spell _________.
diffident
Who was the leader who threw a masquerade ball during the Red Death epidemic?
Prince Prospero
Who is considered the greatest English playwright?
William Shakespeare
Define adverse.
not beneficial; harmful
Define culpable.
deserving of blame
Define fallacy.
a wrong belief or idea
Who is the "Father of Horror Tales"?
Edgar Allan Poe
What genre of play will Julius Caesar fall under?
tragedy
Which of the following is not a verb?
extort; deflect; convoluted; retort
convoluted
Which of the following is NOT a noun?
onus, reprobate, culprit, exonerate
exonerate
Which of the following is a verb?
indubitable, confide, fallible, credulity
confide
What do you call a story in which characters and events symbolize ideas or concepts?
Allegory
For literary critics, who might have inspired the older female characters like Lady Macbeth and Gertrude in Shakespeare's plays?
his wife, mother, daughter, or first love?
his wife
Which word is antonymous with silent or reserved?
tortuous, voluble, inflection, adverse
voluble
Which of the following is antonymous with criticism of disapproval?
approbation
Which word is antonymous with perfect or flawless?
fallible
What is the theme of the horror fiction "The Masque of the Red Death"?
Death is inevitable.
What is the name of the theater established by Shakespeare and other playwrights in 1599?
The Globe
The kidnappers _______ (past tense) large sums of money from their victims.
extorted
Some citizens disapproved when the government ________ the use of marijuana in Virginia.
decriminalized
He made the highly ______ claim that Michael Jackson is still alive and living in Hawaii.
dubious
What literary criticism analyses the life of the author to understand the intended and unintended message of a literary work?
psychological criticism, psychoanalitical criticism
What made Julius Caesar an important figure in the history of Rome?
He brought about the end of the Roman Republic. He was a successful general.