Sonnets
What's in a Play?
Dramatic Elements
Rhetoric
Argue About It
100

The number of lines a sonnet must have.

What is 14 lines?

100
A speech given alone on a stage about personal thoughts and feelings.

What is soliloquy?

100

When the opposite of what is expected happens.

What is irony?

100

The definition of a theme.

What is the central idea or moral of a fictional piece of writing?

100

"The worst film of a generation" uses THIS logical fallacy.

What is overgeneralization?

200

The meter that Shakespeare most frequently uses in his plays and sonnets.

What is iambic pentameter?

200

A speech given to others

What is a monologue?

200

A type of irony where the audience knows something the characters do not.

Dramatic irony

200

The way an author feels. (Double points for 2 examples)

What is tone?

200

The part of an argument where you enforce and strengthen your own point (often by providing this)

What are Background and examples (or evidence)?

300

Poetry written without a pattern or meter.

What is blank verse?

300

A speech or comment given in the presence of others, but directed at the audience

What is an aside?

300

A phrase using words with opposing definitions. (add an example for double points)

What is an Oxymoron

300

Another word for "word choice"

What is diction?

300

When you acknowledge the opposing point of view.

What is a counterclaim?

400

A type of sonnet with 14 lines divided into quatrains and a couplet, written in iambic pentameter.

What is an Elizabethan sonnet?

400

Instructions in a play, written in italics and/or brackets.

What are stage directions?

400

The character trait that leads to a hero's downfall.

What is a tragic flaw?

400

A word's IMPLIED meaning.

What is connotation?

400

When you refute the counterclaim.

What is a rebuttal?

500

The type of rhyme "painting" and "complaining" create.

Slant, or imperfect rhyme

500

Iambic Pentameter includes 5 pairs of syllables, and each pair has a stressed syllable and an unstressed syllable. They always follow THIS order.

What is unstressed-STRESSED?

500

[Tammy enters behind Andre] as Andre gives a speech about how awful Tammy is. This creates THIS type of irony.

What is dramatic irony?

500

"Investigate" is THIS part of speech, while "investigation" is THIS part of speech.

What is a verb and a noun?

500

The purpose of a counterclaim and rebuttal.

What is strengthen the original argument by proving the other side wrong?