Word Roots
What does the root mal mean? Give your own example of a word that uses it.
Mal means bad. Examples include: Maleficent, Malfoy family, malicious, malfunction
What term describes a series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem? (a poem's version of a paragraph)
A stanza
What type of English did Shakespeare write in?
Old English ~450–1150 AD
Middle English ~1150–1500 AD
Early Modern English ~1500–1700 AD
Late Modern English ~1700–Present
Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616, so he wrote in Early Modern English
What is the common word root in the following words? What does that word root mean?
empath empathy
sympathy apathetic
The common word root is path, which means feeling
The following pairs of words are examples of...
Young and song
Mind and Friend
Time and mine
Slant rhymes
Shakespeare is known for three types of plays: histories, tragedies, and comedies. What type of play is Romeo and Juliet?
A tragedy. Although it starts out seeming like a comedy, it takes a fateful turn!
What does the root ambi mean? Give your own example of a word that uses it:
Ambi means both. Examples include ambidextrous, ambivalent, ambivert, ambiguous
What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza? BONUS! What kind of stanza is this called?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; B
All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3, Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter's Tale
What is the common word root in the following words? What does that word root mean?
pact pacifier
pacifist pacify
The common word root is pac, which means peace
How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?
Fourteen
Shakespeare invented or popularized each of the following words except:
Eyeball
Unreal
Lonely
Lackluster
Shakespeare invented or popularized "unreal", "lonely", and "lackluster"
People often say he invented "eyeball", though there are earlier known uses.
What does the root auto mean? Give your own example of a word that uses it
Auto means self. Examples include
autopilot autoplay
autograph automobile
What term describes when a sentence flows over more than one line of poetry?
Enjambment
Shakespeare invented or popularized each of the following phrases except:
"Break the ice"
"Wild-goose chase"
“In a pickle”
“Pulling your leg”
Shakespeare either invented or popularized "Break the ice", "Wild-goose chase", and “In a pickle”!
The phrase “pulling your leg” came after Shakespeare and first referred to when robbers used to trip people and steal their money in 19th century London