A fanciful and elaborate figure of speech tha tmakes a surprising connect between two seemingly dissimilar things
What is a conceit?
100
Shakespeare's birthplace
What is Stratford on Avon?
100
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where whenas death sahll all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.
What is Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser?
100
These people searched for answers to the questions "What is a human being?" "What is a good life?" and "How do I lead a good life?"
Who are the humanists?
100
The class sang (its, their) song loudly at the assembly program held in the auditorium
What is its?
200
A fourteen line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
200
Shakespeare's year of birth and death
What is 1564-1616?
200
"Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,/Haply I think on thee, and then my state, /Like to the lark at break of day arising/From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate"
What is Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare?
200
Johannes Gutenberg invented this during the Renaissance and it helped spread the new knowledge and made books more available to more people
What is the printing press?
200
It cost Sam and (I, me) fifty dollars to make that international call. (choose correct pronoun and tell its function)
What is me and indirect object?
300
A woman comes in from a wild and violent thunderstorm and says "It's a bit wet out there."
What is understatement?
300
The age Shakespeare was married
What is 18?
300
"Let me not to the marriage of ture minds/Admit impediments./Love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds,/Or bends with the remover to remove."
What is Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare?
300
A series of events marking a break with the Roman Church and the pope.
What is the Reformation?
300
(Who, Whom) can we turn to in a time of crisis? (choose the correct pronoun and tell its function)
What is Whom and object of the preposition?
400
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in peotry
What is meter?
400
Shakespeare's children
Who is Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith?
400
"Then be not coy, but use your time;/And while ye may, go marry:/For having lost but once your prime,/You may forever tarry."
What is "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick?
400
A grandfather, a father, and three children
What are the five Tudor rulers of England?
400
It says on the bathroom wall that Joe will sell the answers to the nine weeks exam for five dollars. (Correct pronoun reference error
What is The bathroom wall says that Joe will sell the answers to the nine weeks exam for five dollars?
500
The metrical feet in the following words-understand, interrupt, comprehend, contradict
What is anapest?
500
In grammar school, Shakespeare obtained an excellent education in ___________, _________, and ________.
What is Latin, the Bible, and English composition?
500
"I would/Love you ten years before the Flood,/And you should, if you please, refuse/Till the conversion of the Jews./My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires and more slow."
What is "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell?
500
One of the most brilliant and successful monarchs in the history of England who became a symbol of peace, security, and prosperity.
Who is Elizabeth I?
500
If you have finished either of those magazines, will you lend (it, them) to me?