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Shakespeare
Shakespeare II
Caesar
Romanticism
Poetry
100
Shakespeare was born here.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
100
The three genres of Shakespearean drama are comedy, tragedy, and this.
What is history?
100
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!"
Who is Antony?
100
This author wrote "The Devil and Tom Walker."
Who is Washington Irving?
100
Assigning human qualities to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
200
Shakespeare's three children were Judith, Hamnet, and this girl.
Who is Susanna?
200
This is a solo speech that allows us to see a character's thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
200
Caesar was murdered on this day.
What is March 15/Ides of March?
200
This author wrote "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
Repetition of an initial sound or letter.
What is alliteration?
300
Shakespeare's wife shares her name with this actress.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
300
This was Shakespeare's most famous theater.
What is the Globe?
300
Where do Antony and Octavius meet Brutus and Cassius for battle?
What is Phillipi?
300
This was the first American Romantic author to be widely read overseas.
Who is Washington Irving?
300
Sounds represented as words.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
This was England's major religion during Shakespeare's time.
What is Protestantism?
400
This was Shakespeare's third acting company.
What is The King's Men?
400
"I will see thee again at Philippi."
What is the ghost of Caesar?
400
Romantics valued this more than logic.
What is imagination?
400
"Like a beacon, the moon lights the night sky."
What is a simile?
500
This idea was often represented by a tree with the monarch of England at the top.
What is the Chain of Being?
500
In the line reference "Macbeth, II,i,35," what does the Roman numeral II refer to?
What is the act?
500
This person was mistaken for a conspirator and killed by an angry mob.
Who is Cinna the poet?
500
Poe believed that a short story should be written to achieve this.
What is a single effect?
500
From Megamind: "His heart is an ocean that's inside a bigger ocean."
What is a metaphor?