Shakespeare

Question 1

What is Context

Answer 1

• Chronological Time (Time)
• Physical Location (Where)
• Societal attitudes of the time (Why)

Question 2

What is a literary movement

Answer 2

A literary movement refers to a body of literary works composed during a set time period that share common features

Question 3

5 examples of movements in literature

Answer 3

• The Medieval Era
• Jacobean Era
• Elizabethan Era
• Romantism
• Post Modernism

Question 4

Metre

Answer 4

The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables to create rhythm in a line

Question 5

Prose

Answer 5

Speech used by the common people no metre or rhyme scheme

Question 6

Verse

Answer 6

A set rhythm to a text

Question 7

Iambic Pentameter

Answer 7

Verse rhythm, 10 syllables, alternating stress

Question 8

Blank Verse

Answer 8

Poetry written in unrhymed by metered lines

Question 9

Introduction

Answer 9

Established the main idea purpose and direction of what is to come

Question 10

Conclusion

Answer 10

Reviews and synthesises the main ideas

Question 11

When the Tempest written and performed

Answer 11

1611 during the Jacobean Era

Question 12

When did Shakespeare die

Answer 12

23rd April 1616

Question 13

What was the time period of the Elizabethan era

Answer 13

1558-1603 (Shakespeare was 39 years old when it ended)

Question 14

What is the Great Chain of Being

Answer 14

A hierarchy of all living and non living things

Question 15

Theme

Answer 15

Shaped and affected by the context in which a text was written

Question 16

Setting

Answer 16

Used to establish tone, mood and atmosphere

Question 17

Context

Answer 17

A means of understanding multiple interpretations/response to a text

Question 18

Comma splice

Answer 18

The incorrect use of a comma to connect to independent clauses

Question 19

Fused Sentence

Answer 19

Joining two independent clauses without any punctuation or conjunction

Question 20

Sentence Fragment

Answer 20

A collection of words that is missing one or more components required to create a complete thought (often a subject or a verb)

Question 21

Themes in The Tempest

Answer 21

Love
Conflict
Power and Freedom
Empathy and Forgiveness

Question 22

Metaphor

Answer 22

A non-literal comparison of two things whereby one thing is said to be the other

Question 23

Exclamative

Answer 23

A sentence which conveys a sense of surprise or another strong emotion, often but not always ending in an exclamation mark

Question 24

Imperative

Answer 24

A sentence which conveys an instruction or a command, usually beginning with a verb

Question 25

Time period of the Jacobean Era

Answer 25

1603 - 1625

Question 26

King James

Answer 26

King James VI of Scotland becomes King James VI of Scotland and England

Question 27

All Characters (11)

Answer 27

Prospero (protagonist)
Miranda
Ariel
Sycorax
Caliban
Duke Antonio
King Alonso
Ferdinand
Stephano and Trinculo
Gonzalo
Sebastian

Question 28

Author and Texts from the time period

Answer 28

Shakespeare - Macbeth, The Tempest
Ben Jonson - The Alchemist, Volpone

Question 29

Jacobean style of literature

Answer 29

Dark, Satire, Revenge, Tragedy, The Supernatural

Question 30

Age of Discovery in relevance to Shakespeare

Answer 30

Two years before the play was written a fleet of ships set sail for the new-found America. Called the Sea-venture. It was blown of course into rocks, everyone on board was presumed dead however a year later the lost crew from the ship made it to America

Question 31

how to literary movements arise

Answer 31

They are influenced by events/conflict of the time

Question 32

Age of Discovery

Answer 32

Also known as the Age of Exploration, overlapping with the Age of Sail, a period from approximately the 15th century to the 16th century, during which seafarers from a number of European countries explored, colonised, and conquered regions across the globe.