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Shakespere Test Flashcards

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Marries who, when

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Anne Hathaway November 28 1582

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William Shakespeare was born

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April 23 1564

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What year did Shakespeare start acting

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1592

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What acting group did Shakespeare manage

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The Lord chamberlain

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Shakespeare wrote how many plays in 1597

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15

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What was Shakespeare’s theater called

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The Globe

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Most of Shakespeare’s early plays were

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Historical

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Shakespeare wrote what type of plays after 1600

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Tragedies

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What date did Shakespeare die

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April 23 1616

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How many sonnets did Shakespeare write

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154

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How many plays did Shakespeare write

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37

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Shakespeare wrote how many songs

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124

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Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest writer of all time for what 3 reasons

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His works are universal
Works are timeless
Image making devices used

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13
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How many of Shakespeare’s sonnets were in iambic pentameter

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74

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14
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What was another nickname for Shakespeare’s theater

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The wooden O

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15
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What shape was Shakespeare’s theater

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Octagon

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How many levels did Shakespeare’s theater have

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3

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17
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Apron is

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The part of a stage in a theater extending in front of the curtain.

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18
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An aras was used for what

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To hide scenes that they could not show

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19
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How often did the average citizen go to the theater in England during the time of Shakespeare

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Once a week

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White flag meant

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Comedy

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Green flag meant

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History

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Black flag meant

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What three themes are always prevalent in Shakespeare’s plays

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Love, societal, political

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What play did Shakespeare write first

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What play did Shakespeare write last

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The Tempest

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How many words made up Shakespeare’s vocabulary

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How many words did Shakespeare make up

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What are the 4 Shakespearean conventions and what do they mean

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  1. Soliloquy-shows characters reaction, inner conflict, demonstrates the characters character
  2. Aside-only audience hears a short comment
  3. Structural climax-Elizabethan revenge tragedy, 3rd act protagonist is at hight of good fortune
  4. Disease imagery-wrote during the bubonic plague, “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
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What is a malaprop

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Used words improperly on purpose for effect

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What are the 5 steps to the classic tragedy

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Downfall is brought about through the tragic flaw
Pity from the audience
Hero suffers greatly/ great capacity for suffering, begins in prosperity and ends in misery
Emerges as a hero

31
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What was hamlet written

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Son died
Father died
To criticize the earl of Suffix

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What are the literary contributions by Shakespeare

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  1. Developed dramatic techniques for conveying a sense of characters phycological identity
  2. Great use of language
  3. Perfected blank verse and heroic couplet
  4. Use of word play
  5. Ability to convey through dialogue
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What are the five steps to the Elizabethan revenge tragedy

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  1. Hero did not create the situation he is in
  2. Opening is a horrible situation, hero does not take fatal steps but is confronted with appalling facts
  3. The villain is the initiator of the action and resolution (hero is committed to counter action)
  4. Denouement comes about through the villain, revenger takes opportunity provided by villain
  5. Hero descends to the moral level of his opponent
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Give thy thoughts

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Give thy thoughts no tongue nor any unproportional thought his act- polonius to larates

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Give every man

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Give every man thy ear but few thy voice-polonius to lerates

36
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Neither a borrower

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend-polonius-larates

37
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When the blood burns

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When the blood burns how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows-polonius to Ophelia

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Be wary then

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Be wary then, best safety lies in fear-larates to Ophelia

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This above all

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This above all: to thine own self be true and it follow as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man- polonius to larates

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It is common for

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It is common for the younger sort to lack digression- polonius to Ophelia

41
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Brevity is the

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Brevity is the soul of wit-polonius to king and queen

42
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Nothing either good

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Nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so- hamlet to rosencranz and guildenstern

43
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What a piece of work is a man.

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What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason how infinite in faculty, inform and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god- hamlet to r and g

44
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I must be

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I must be cruel only to be kind- hamlet to queen

45
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To be honest as

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To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of 10,000-hamlet to polonius

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Rich gifts wax

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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind- Ophelia to hamlet

47
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For some must watch

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For some must watch and some must sleep so runs the world away- hamlet to horatio

48
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For use almost

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For use almost can change the stamp of nature-hamlet to Gertrude

49
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Thus the native hue

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Thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied oer with the pail cast of thought- hamlet to queen

50
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In sorrows come they

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In sorrows come they come not is spies but in battalions-king to queen

51
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We know what we are

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We know what we are but not what we may be- Ophelia to king queen

52
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A knavish speech

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A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear- hamlet to r and g

53
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Rightly to be great

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Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument but greatly to find quarrel in a straw for honor- hamlet

54
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Good night sweet prince

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Good night sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest- horatio

55
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Cat will mew

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Cat will mew and dog will have his day- hamlet

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