Vocabulary
Theme
What is the central message or central idea of a text
Identify the device: "After that, loneliness will accompany you to every airport, train station, bus depot..."
What is a personification
Why does Hamlet pretend to be crazy/mentally ill?
What is to hide his true intentions of investigating his father's death from his enemies
Why is Beowulf considered an epic hero?
What is he shows bravery, loyalty, and strength
What is to fix grammar, capitalization, punctuation, or spelling
Tone
Simile
What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like ot as
What mood is set in the opening scene of Hamlet?
What is eerie, tension and suspense.
Caesura
What is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry
What is a run-on sentence?
What is two independent clauses without correct punctuation
Inference
What is a combination of information from the text and what I/we already know to form a new understanding
Imagery
What is descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses
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Free Points
What emotion is created through repeated images of emptiness?
What is a feeling of detatchment, loneliness, or isiolation
What is a thesis statement?
Structure
What is the way the parts of a text are organized
Alliteration
What is a figurative language technique that involves the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words close to one another
How does the Ophelia subplot deepen the main plot?
What is it shows how corruption and revenge hurts innocent people
How does Spenser compare fire and ice?
What is he uses them as metaphors for passion and indifference
Fix the error: "Each of the students are ready."
Double points: What is the grammar rule being used here?
What is "Each of the students is ready" Subject-verb agreement / Singular and plural use
Dramatic Irony
What is the audience know more than the characters in the play
What does this metaphor mean:
"What more miraculous thing may be told, That fire which all things melts, should harden ice..."
What is the speaker wonders why the stronger his love/passion grows, the less his beloved cares for him
The climax of Hamlet occurs when____.
Double Points: How does this moment drive the plot forward?
What is Hamlet kills polonius. This event pushes each chcracter towards destruction, driving the plot forward.
Characteristics of a Shakespearean Sonnet
What is
- 14 Lines
- Written in Iambic Pentameter
- 3 quantrains (4 lines) and a couplet (2 lines)
- Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
- Usually about love or nature