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1
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Writers during this time were either _____for their work or ______for it

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Celebrated; censured

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Two writers put to death for falling out of favor with the ruler of their day

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Sir Thomas Moore and sir Walter Raleigh

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3
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Who took the throne in 1485?

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Henry Tudor (Henry VII)

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Who did he arrange for his son to marry and why?

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Catherine of Aragon; to create a political alliance with Spain.

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5
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Who was England’s greatest “new world” rival?

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Spain

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Who ended up marrying Catherine?

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Henry the VIII because Arthur unexpectedly died

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7
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What did the friars sell in exchange for forgiveness of sin?

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Indulgences

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In 1517, who wrote the 95 thesis?

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Martin Luther

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9
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What year did Henry VIII break off from Rome and declare himself head of Church of England?

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1517

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10
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How many wives did Henry have?

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Six

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11
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Who was his only son?

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Edward VI.

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12
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When did Edward succeed him?

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When he was 9

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13
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What age did Edward die?

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15

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14
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Why is Mary called Bloody Mary?

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When she took the throne, to avenge her mother, she brought back Roman Catholicism and persecuted Protestants

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15
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Who succeed Mary in 1558 when she died?

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Elizabeth I

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16
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When did Elizabeth die and what did this mark the end of?

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1603; the end of the Tudor dynasty

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17
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When was the English civil war

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1640

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18
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Whose reign was the civil war under

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Charles I

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19
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The English civil war pitted the _____ against supporters of _______.

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Royalists; parliament

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20
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Who defeated the royalists in 1645

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Oliver Cromwell

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21
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Parliament established a ________ where Cromwell was the head

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Commonwealth

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22
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Who ruled at the start of the restoration?

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Charles II

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23
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What does Renaissance mean?

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Rebirth

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24
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Where and when did the renaissance begin

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Italy in the 14th century

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25
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What years was the renaissance period?

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1485-1660

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26
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Who ushered the restorations?

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Charles II

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27
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Well rounded person that cultivated his talents to the fullest

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Renaissance man

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28
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Who invented the printing press?

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Gutenberg

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29
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What marked the conclusion of the renaissance period?

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The restoration of the monarchy in 1660

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30
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A poem that portrays shepherds and rustic life, usually in an idealized manner

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A pastoral

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31
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In Elizabethan times, what become the most famous form of love lyric?

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The sonnet

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32
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The English sonnet eventually became known as what?

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The Shakespearean sonnet

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33
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Dramas dealt with the ______ of human life on earth rather than with the _______ themes of earlier times

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Complexities ; religious

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34
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The most successful playhouse during this time

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The globe

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35
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Three types of plays:

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Comedies, tragedies, and histories

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36
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What do Shakespeare’s plays represent?

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The height of the English dramatic tradition

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37
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What group of people sought to close theaters because they thought they were sinful?

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Puritans

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38
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When did the puritans overthrow Charles?

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1649

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39
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What act brought the golden age of drama to an end?

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The overthrow of King Charles I’m 1649 by the puritans

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40
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What did literature reflect during the renaissance?

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Humanism

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41
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Humanities?

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Art, history, philosophy; human based rather than sacred

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42
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Humanists were concerned with _____ learning

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Classic

43
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What was one of the humanist aims?

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To teach the sons of nobility

How to speak and write in Latin (the language of diplomacy)

44
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For humanists, Religion was a subject _____ to most but agreed upon by _____

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Most; few

45
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Who translated the first English version of the bible and when

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John Wycliffe; 14th century

46
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In 1604, James I commissioned ___ leading biblical scholars to create a new _______ version of the bible based on other _____ and ______translations

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54; authorized; Greek and Hebrew

47
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When was the King James Bible complete?

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1611

48
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One of the earliest writers to be influenced by the King James Bible

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Puritan poet John Milton

49
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John Milton’s _________ is based on the biblical story of the first humans

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Paradise lost

50
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Who wrote the pilgrims progress and where was he when he wrote it?

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John Bunyan; jail

51
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What is pilgrims progress about?

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An allegory in which a character named Christian undertakes a dangerous journey from this world to the next

52
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The literary man of all trades

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Ben Jonson

53
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Cavaliers

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Poets that took the side of Charles I in the civil war between cromwell’s Roundheads and the royalists

54
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What did cavalier poetry deal with?

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Love, war, chivalry, and loyalty

55
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Carpe diem

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Living for the moment

56
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John Donne is a representative of _______ poets

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Metaphysical

57
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Metaphysical poems themed:

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Death, physical love, religious devotion

58
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What does sonnet mean?

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“Little song”

59
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When were sonnets introduced

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13th century

60
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What is a sonnet?

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14-line lyric poem with a complicated rhythm scheme and a defined structure

61
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The great Italian poet

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Petrarch

62
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Another poet known for making sonnets popular

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Sir Thomas Wyatt

63
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Two parts of Petrarch form

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Octave and seset

64
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What is an octave?

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The first 8 lines of sonnet and establishes the speakers situation

65
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What is a seset?

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The last 6 lines. It resolves

66
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The Petrarchan sonnet has been called _______ in its unity because the octave and seset fit together ________.

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Organic; naturally

67
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What’s Shakespearean form?

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Three quatrains are followed by a rhyming couplet

68
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The Scottish play

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Macbeth

69
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Where was the first performance of Macbeth held?

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Before King James at Hampton court palace

70
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How many people could the globe hold..

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3000

71
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Poorer patrons

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Groundlings

72
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When was the globe destroyed?

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1613

73
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Who shut down the theatre?

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Oliver Cromwell and the puritans

74
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What were some topics explored in Shakespeare’s tragedies?

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Revenge,intrigue, murder, insanity

75
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What did Shakespeare base his works off of

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Greek and roman traditions of drama

76
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Dramatic work with a happy ending

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Comedy

77
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A work with an unhappy ending

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Tragedy

78
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Presented stories of previous English monarchs

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Histories

79
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The main character that comes to an unhappy end

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The tragic hero

80
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Fatal error in judgment or weakness of character that leads to his downfall

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Tragic flaw

81
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What involves a conflict between the hero and a person or force called the antagonist

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The plot

82
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Catastrophe

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Tragic resolution

83
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The central idea conveyed by the work

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The theme

84
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A light mildly humorous scene following a serious tone

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Comic relief

85
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Blank verse

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Unrhymed

86
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A speech a character makes while alone on stage to reveal his or her thoughts in the audience

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Soliloquy

87
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A remark a character makes in an undertone to the audience

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Aside

88
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Based on contrast between reality and expectation

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Irony

89
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What appears as true to one or more characters in a play but is seen to be false by the audience

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Dramatic irony

90
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A writers use of hints to suggest what events will occur later

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Foreshadowing

91
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What was different about the English of Shakespeare’s time

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Grammatical form

Unusual word order

Unfamiliar vocabulary

92
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Often referred to as the bard

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Shakespeare

93
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How many words did Shakespeare introduce

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More than 1700

94
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Has had his work translated into ____ languages

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118

95
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Robert Greene referred to Shakespeare as _____

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Upstart crow

96
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When did Shakespeare die

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April 23, 1616 on his 52nd birthday

97
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“Was not of an age but for all time”

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Ben Jonson

98
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“Fair is foul, foul is fair”

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The witches

99
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“A little water clears us of this deed, how easy is it then!”

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Lady Macbeth

100
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Who are the kings two sons

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Malcolm and donalbain

101
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“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus”

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Macbeth

102
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“I will have blood they say, blood will have blood.”

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Macbeth

103
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“Double double toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble”

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Witches

104
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“Fie my lord fie”

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Lady Macbeth

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