Shakespeare
This famous playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is the name of the girl who brutally dumped Isaac.
Who is Monica?
This is a comparison using “like” or “as” is called this.
What is a simile?
This is how many different elements make up water.
What is two? (hydrogen and oxygen)
In Romeo and Juliet, these two families are sworn enemies.
Who are the Capulets and Monatgues?
This is the name of John Green's famous brother.
Who is Hank Green?
This is giving human qualities to a non-human thing.
What is personification?
This is how many kilometres are in 4 miles.
What is 6.43738km?
“To be or not to be” is a line from this Shakespearean tragedy.
What is Hamlet?
When Augustus calls his unlit cigarette a “metaphor,” this is the idea about control he trying to express.
What is keeping danger close without letting it have power over him?
Identify the technique: “The moon watched silently as the soldiers marched.”
What is personification?
In Mulan, “Reflection” shows her struggling with this.
What is her identity and the conflict between duty and self-expression.
Shakespeare’s plays are usually divided into three genres: comedies, histories, and these.
What are tragedies?
This is why An Imperial Affliction, ends “in the middle of a sentence”?
What is it mirrors the uncertainty and abruptness of life and death?
In persuasive writing, this is how emotive language influences an audience.
What is it appeals to their feelings and values, prompting empathy or action?
This country is geographically opposite to New Zealand.
What is Spain?
In Macbeth, this character’s ambition and manipulation lead Macbeth to murder the king.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
The novel’s title comes from a line inspired by Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. What does it suggest about fate?
That fate (“the fault”) lies not in the stars but in ourselves / people’s lives are shaped by choices, not destiny.
This is how contrast (or juxtaposition) can be used to highlight a theme?
What is by placing opposites side by side, it emphasizes differences and deepens the reader’s understanding of conflict or irony.
Why is Aaron Burr famous?