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Grammar
100
contradictory terms "honorable villain"
What is oxmoron
100
Names of two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet
What is Montague and Capulet
100
Roman name for Athena
What is Minerva
100
humorous scene in a serious drama to provide relief from an intense scene
What is comic relief
100
what most adjectives clauses begin with
What is a relative pronoun
200
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
What is an iamb
200
the turning point in Romeo and Juliet
What is when Romeo kills Tybalt
200
the half woman/half lion monster who required the answer to a riddle
What is the Sphinx
200
a sudden awareness or understanding of the meaning of something
What is epiphany
200
a verbal that ends in --ing and acts as a noun
What is gerund
300
a fourteen-line poem (prologue to Romeo and Juliet)
What is a sonnet
300
the number of plays Shakespeare wrote?
What is 37
300
the one god the Romans added to mythology (the two-faced god)
What is Janus
300
the inscription on a headstone/gravestone
What is an epitaph
300
the part of the sentence that answers the question "to whom" or "for whom or what" after a transitive action verb
What is an indirect object
400
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse
400
The face that launched a thousand ships?
Helen
400
who unleashed evil upon the world according to the Greeks
Who is Pandora
400
a term used to characterize a person or thing
What is an epithet
400
the word that means "sentence structure"
What is syntax
500
a vocabulary word that means all-powerful
What is omnipotent
500
Who told George at the end of Of Mice and Men, "You hadda, George, you hadda"?
Who is Slim
500
the Roman name for Dionysus
What is Baccus
500
the direct opposite (to be or not to be)
What is an antithesis
500
the difference between comparative and superlative adjectives
What is comparative comparing two/superlative three or more