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Victorian Age
Shakespeare and the Renaissance
Capital Punishment
Literary terms
Grammatik
100
Famous fictious character who lives in Bakerstreet 221 B.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
100
Monarch who reigned England from 1558 - 1603.
Who is Queen Elizabeth the 1st?
100
Helen Prejean's profession.
What is nun / a Catholic sister?
100
A play with an unhappy and often violent ending.
What is a tragedy?
100
green, beautiful, fast, bleak, kind
What is "adjectives"?
200
Author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
200
What causes the hero of a tragedy to make fatal decisions.
What is the tragic flaw?
200
Where the inmates who are sentenced to death are kept.
What is death row?
200
The use of metaphors and similes by poets and writers.
What is "imagery"?
200
Furiously, hard, often, never, carefully
What is "adverbs"?
300
The period in which Queen Victoria reigned.
What is 1837 - 1901?
300
The divine order of universe that the Elizabethans believed in.
What is The Great Chain of Being?
300
A sort of peace the family of a victim is believed to obtain when the assailant is found and punished.
What is closure?
300
Two or more words in a line beginning with the same sound.
What is alliteration?
300
Furniture, money, news, information, sugar
What is "uncountable nouns"?
400
The brightest jewel in the crown.
What is India
400
An object that guides Macbeth to the Duncan's chamber.
What is a dagger?
400
To replace one sentence/punishment with another which is less severe.
What is "to commute"
400
An explicit comparison which uses the words "as" or "like".
What is a simile?
400
Little - less - least
What is irregular comparison?
500
Nickname for chimney sweep apprentices.
What is "climbing boys"?
500
A euphemism for the 3 witches
What is "the weird sisters"?
500
To declare someone free of blame.
What is "to exonerate"
500
A joke which depends upon a word’s having two (or more) meanings.
What is a pun?
500
At two o'clock, during the second world war, early in the day, late at night
What is "long adverbials"?