shakespeare

Question 0

what was Shakespeare’s hometown?

Answer 0

Stratford on Avon

Question 1

what was Shakespeare’s wife’s maiden name

Answer 1

Anne Hathaway

Question 2

what river runs through London?

Answer 2

Thames

Question 3

what queen ruled for the last half of the 1500s?

Answer 3

Queen Elizabeth

Question 4

people who believe Shakespeare is the true author are called…

Answer 4

Stratfordians

Question 5

who succeeded queen Elizabeth?

Answer 5

King James

Question 6

what 2 companies was Shakespeare involved in?

Answer 6

kings men, lord chamberlensmen

Question 7

the first official collection if Shakespeare’s plays

Answer 7

first folio

Question 8

people thought _______ wrote Shakespeare’s plays

Answer 8

Edward Devere

Question 9

people who thought Shakespeare didn’t write his plays were called…

Answer 9

Oxfordians

Question 10

un rhymed iambic pentameter is called..

Answer 10

blank verse

Question 11

Shakespeare’s nickname

Answer 11

the bard

Question 12

people standing on the ground watching the plays were called…

Answer 12

pennyknaves groundlings

Question 13

3 main categories of Shakespeare’s plays

Answer 13

comedy, tragedy, history

Question 14

list 4 tragedies

Answer 14

hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello

Question 15

list 3 comedies

Answer 15

mid summers night dream, merchant of Venice, as you like it

Question 16

list 2 histories

Answer 16

Richard 3, Henry 8

Question 17

most taught

Answer 17

Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar

Question 18

personification

Answer 18

giving a non human thing human characteristics

Question 19

simile

Answer 19

comparing two things using like or as

Question 20

implied metaphor

Answer 20

comparing something without saying what you are comparing it to

Question 21

Benvolio

Answer 21

Montague. cousin of Romeo. Lover not a fighter

Question 22

Juliet

Answer 22

13

Question 23

Tybalt

Answer 23

Capulet. Cousin of Juliet. likes to fight

Question 24

Sampson

Answer 24

capulet servant

Question 25

Gregory

Answer 25

capulet servant

Question 26

Nurse

Answer 26

capulet servant to Juliet. Dirty jokes

Question 27

Mercutio

Answer 27

friend of Romeo, related to the prince. Neutral

Question 28

Paris

Answer 28

wants to marry Juliet. related to the prince

Question 29

Prince Escalus

Answer 29

prince of Verona. fed up with montagues and capulets

Question 30

you are t soupouse to say Macbeth in a theatre so they call it…

Answer 30

the Scottish play

Question 31

unrequited love

Answer 31

when you love someone, but they don’t love you back

Question 32

soliloquy

Answer 32

speech alone on the stage

Question 33

fond

Answer 33

foolish

Question 34

beguiled

Answer 34

cheated

Question 35

sonnet

Answer 35

14 line poem with 10 syllables per line

Question 36

couplet

Answer 36

two lines that rhyme

Question 37

iambic pentameter

Answer 37

stressed unstressed 4 lines

Question 38

sequence of events..

Answer 38

exposition
rising action
crisis 
falling action
denouement

Question 39

quatrain

Answer 39

Poem of 4 lines

Question 40

rhythm

Answer 40

regular repeated pattern

Question 41

meter

Answer 41

number of lines in a verse

Question 42

Elizabethan age

Answer 42

Shakespeare’s time/life/writings

Question 43

Ben Jonson

Answer 43

“Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time”