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Sonnets
William Shakespeare
Vocabulary
Literary Devices
The Play
100
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What is the Rhyme Scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet
100
Shakespeare's birth date and death date
What is (April 23,) 1564 and April 23, 1616?
100
To fight; an angry argument or disagreement (not usually physical)
What is a Quarrel?
100
The difference between a soliloquy and an aside.
What is the presence of other characters on the stage for an aside, unlike for a soliloquy, but still in both cases no one but the audience hears what is said?
100
The genre of Romeo and Juliet
What is a Tragedy?
200
A stanza of 4 lines, especially with alternating rhymes
What is a Quatrain?
200
The name of Shakespeare's London Theater
What is The Globe Theater
200
The difference between Vile and Vial
What is to be disgusting/terrible and a small bottle for holding liquids?
200
The part of the plot when the enemy families (Capulets and Montagues) make peace with each other
What is the resolution/denouement?
200
True or False Shakespeare foreshadows the tragic end by having both Romeo and Juliet experience premonitions of death.
What is True?
300
Often considered the most important part of a sonnet, this poetic device delivers the theme of the whole sonnet.
What is the final rhyming couplet?
300
Shakespeare's Theater Company under Queen Elizabeth I
What is Lord Chamberlain's Men?
300
To be banished of cast out of a place, typically due to a serious crime.
What is Exile?
300
"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon" (2.2.4) is an example of this literary device
What is Personification?
300
The irony of Romeo killing himself beside Juliet in her family tomb.
What is the reality that Juliet is still alive and moments away from awaking?
400
Shakespeare wrote 154 ______ and 39 ______ in his writing career.
What is 154 sonnets and 39 plays?
400
The warning on Shakespeare's grave
What is "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forebeare, To digg the dust enclosed heare; Bleste be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones."
400
With your team, in 60 seconds, use "Lamentable" in a sentence that correctly communicates its meaning within the context of the play!
What is an example "Romeo and Juliet is a lamentable story of 2 star-crossed lovers who did all they could to stay together, but still ultimately died."
400
What literary element is being addressed when Friar John cannot get the letter into Mantua due to the outbreak of the plague?
What is Irony?
400
The fairy of dreams who visits Romeo as a lover of love
Who is Queen Mab?
500
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; 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; For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
What is the Theme of Wealth, the differences between spiritual and material wealth. By the end, the speaker is content with a past lover's "sweet love," in place of even the richest most powerful men's economic wealth.
500
The name of Shakespeare's wife and 3 children
Who are Anne Hathaway & Judith/Susanna/Hamnet
500
Based upon these lines from the play, what is the meaning of the word "Incorporate"? "Come, come with me, and we will make short work; For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone Till Holy Church incorporate two in one."
What is to make into a whole or make something part of a whole?
500
If I profane with my unworthiest hand, This holy shrine, the gentle is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand, To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
500
Love, though noble and beautiful, ultimately results in tragedy.
What is just one major theme to take away from Romeo and Juliet?