Tempest Characters 1
He is the play’s protagonist
Prospero
He is a powerful spirit
Ariel
This world event prompted Shakespeare to write poetry
The plague
Ferdinand performs this task for Prospero
Carrying wood
The meter that Shakespeare used most often
Iambic pentameter
He is the son of a witch
Caliban
He helped Prospero flee Italy
Gonzalo
Shakespeare grew up in this city
Stratford-upon-Avon
The shape Ariel assumes at the magical banquet
A harpy
The type of unrhymed poetry Shakespeare favored in his plays
Blank verse
He is the father of Ferdinand
Alonso
He is Alonso's brother
Sebastian
Shakespeare's wife's name
Anne Hathaway
These two characters play chess together in act 5
Shakespeare wrote in Old English, Middle English, or Modern English?
200-point bonus: provide the full 3-word label
Modern English
200-point bonus: Early Modern English
He plotted to kill Alonso
Antonio
These two characters promise to kill Prospero
Trinculo and Stephano
Shakespeare attended this college
None :)
This is what distracts Trinculo and Stephano in their attempt to kill Prospero
Fancy clothes
This is the definition of an iamb
A metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
She is Caliban's mother
Sycorax
He only appears in the first and the last scene
The boatswain
This is the name of Shakespeare's only son
Hamnet
Alonso is on his way back from this country when the tempest occurs
200-point bonus: What was he doing there?
Tunisia
200-point bonus: His daughter married the king of Tunis
The archaic meaning of the word "an"
If