Characters
Characters & Plot
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Vocab/Definitions
100

This character is the servant of Antipholus of Syracuse.

Who is Dromio of Syracuse?

100

Egeon's sons were seperated by this trajedy.

What is a shipwreck?

100

This town was the place where both Antipholus's were born.

What is Syracuse?

100

This act is when Egeon gets sentenced to death.

What is Act 1?

100
This Shakespearian word means porcupine.
What is porpentine?
200

She is the sister of Adriana.

Who is Luciana?

200

These two characters often get beaten.

Who are the Dromios?

200
This town was the location of Angelo's shop.
What is Ephesus?
200

This is the country that the entire play takes place in.

What is Ephesus?

200

This Shakespearian word means "why," or "for what reason."

What is wherefore?

300
This character is the Duke of Ephesus.
Who is Solinus?
300

This character plays the "judge" and "ruler" in the play.

Who is the Duke (Solinus)

300
This place was where Antipholus of Ephesus decided to go after being shut out by Adriana.
What is the Porpentine?
300

This is the name of Shakespeare's first published, collected works.

What is First Folio?

300

This word means a large, densely packed crowd of people.

What is throng?

400

This character is the cleaning lady for Adriana.

Who is Luce or Nell?

400

Antipholous of Syracuse falls in love with this woman.

Who is Luciana?

400

The town of which the merchant of Ephesus tells Antipholus of Syracuse to say he was from.

What is Epidamium?

400

This is the total number of people who die in the play.

What is zero?

400

This literary device is when the audience knows something that the characters do not.

What is dramatic irony?

500

This character is arrested for tresspassing in Ephesus.

Who is Egeon?

500

This is central theme of the play.

What is Mistaken Identity?

500

The final scene of the play takes place here.

What is the abbey?

500

The part of a narrative that introduces background information to the audience, such as the setting, main characters, and prior events.

What is Exposition?

500

Shakespeare uses this type of verse in The Comedy of Errors, using lines of 5 Iambs with 2 syllables in each Iamb, for a total of 10 syllables per line

What is Iambic Pentameter?