Shakespeare

Question 0

soliloquy

Answer 0

speech by one character to himself

Question 1

aside

Answer 1

a remark by a character that is only heard by the audience

Question 2

monologue

Answer 2

speech given by one person

Question 3

sonnent

Answer 3

poem with 14 lines

Question 4

couplet

Answer 4

ending two lines in a sonnent

Question 5

exposition

Answer 5

beginning of the play

Question 6

rising action

Answer 6

series of inccidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interset

Question 7

crisis/turning point

Answer 7

climax

Question 8

falling action

Answer 8

after the climax

Question 9

denouement

Answer 9

end of the story

Question 10

history

Answer 10

KIng Reichard 3 and KIng Henry 4

Question 11

comedy

Answer 11

Midsummer’s Night Dream and The Taming of the Shrew

Question 12

tragedy

Answer 12

Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear

Question 13

blank verse

Answer 13

an unrhming iambic pentameter

Question 14

quatrain

Answer 14

four lines in a sonnent

Question 15

rhythm

Answer 15

emphasized and unemphasized sounds

Question 16

meter

Answer 16

sopatpattern of rthym

Question 17

simile

Answer 17

metaphor using like or as

Question 18

enjambment

Answer 18

when one line of the poem bleeds into another

Question 19

bard

Answer 19

the person that sings the storys

Question 20

theathre

Answer 20

the Globe

Question 21

river

Answer 21

the Thames

Question 22

home town

Answer 22

Stratford on Avon

Question 23

Ben Jonson:

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Monarchs

Answer 24

Elizabeth 1 and James 1

Question 25

theatre groups

Answer 25

Lord Chamberlain’s Men and King’s Men

Question 26

possible author

Answer 26

Edward DeVere