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Shakespeare life span - answer✔✔1564-1616
What four things did Shakespeare write - answer✔✔tragedies, comedies, histories, poems
What four subjects did Shakespeare study in school - answer✔✔Latin, Ovid, Iliad, Bible
What is Shakespeare's theatre called - answer✔✔The Globe Theatre
Why did Shakespeare's theatre close - answer✔✔bubonic plague
Shakespeare's wife - answer✔✔Anne Hathaway
What was the typical length of a Shakespearean play - answer✔✔Two hours or less
Most of the topics for Shakespeare's plays were - answer✔✔well known to the audience
Shakespeare's plays were in what city - answer✔✔London
Shakespeare's audiences were NOT - answer✔✔select and small
Why was Shakespeare's theatre group called king's Men - answer✔✔Because it was during the
reign of james I
Where was Shakespeare born - answer✔✔Stratford
Who were Shakespeare's parents? - answer✔✔John and Mary
what office was john shakespeare elected - answer✔✔town counselor
How did Shakespeare's childhood end - answer✔✔His father's business collapsed causing them
to become poor and taking William out of school
a main division in drama - answer✔✔act
a reference to a literary or historical person or event to explain a present situation -
answer✔✔allusion
A brief remark made by a character and intended to be heard by the audience but not by other
characters. - answer✔✔aside
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter - answer✔✔blank verse
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a humerous scene or speech in a drama which is meant to provide relief from emotional intensity
- answer✔✔comedic relief
a chivalric philosophy of love - answer✔✔courtly love
repetition of the same or similar in two or more close or consecutive words -
answer✔✔alliteration
a character who provides a contrast to another character - answer✔✔foil
a hint of what is to come in a story - answer✔✔foreshadowing
words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses - answer✔✔imagery
contrast of what is and what appears to be - answer✔✔irony
figure of speech that compares.two unlike things with out using like or as - answer✔✔metaphor
rhythmical pattern of a work - answer✔✔meter
a speech given by a character alone on stage - answer✔✔soliloquy
speech given by one character in a play, story, or poem - answer✔✔monologue
a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work. -
answer✔✔motiff
contrast of two contradictory terms - answer✔✔oxymoron
a statement that seems to contradict itself or seems false but is true - answer✔✔paradox
human qualities given to inanimate objects - answer✔✔personification
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem - answer✔✔rhyme scheme
a small unit of a play in which there is no shift of locale or time - answer✔✔scene
a figure of speech that compares using like or as - answer✔✔simile
a type of drama of human conflict which ends in defeat and suffering - answer✔✔tragedy
The lines of the prologue rhyme because it is meant to be sung by a chorus. What is the purpose
of the prologue? - answer✔✔to foreshadow what is to come
What small gesture starts the street brawl? What new law does Prince Escalus of Verona enact
after that fight? - answer✔✔one guy bites his thumb at the other guy, If you fight again I will kill
you, "
Romeo & Juliet Study Guide 100% Verified.
Shakespeare life span - answer✔✔1564-1616
What four things did Shakespeare write - answer✔✔tragedies, comedies, histories, poems
What four subjects did Shakespeare study in school - answer✔✔Latin, Ovid, Iliad, Bible
What is Shakespeare's theatre called - answer✔✔The Globe Theatre
Why did Shakespeare's theatre close - answer✔✔bubonic plague
Shakespeare's wife - answer✔✔Anne Hathaway
What was the typical length of a Shakespearean play - answer✔✔Two hours or less
Most of the topics for Shakespeare's plays were - answer✔✔well known to the audience
Shakespeare's plays were in what city - answer✔✔London
Shakespeare's audiences were NOT - answer✔✔select and small
Why was Shakespeare's theatre group called king's Men - answer✔✔Because it was during the
reign of james I
Where was Shakespeare born - answer✔✔Stratford
Who were Shakespeare's parents? - answer✔✔John and Mary
what office was john shakespeare elected - answer✔✔town counselor
How did Shakespeare's childhood end - answer✔✔His father's business collapsed causing them
to become poor and taking William out of school
a main division in drama - answer✔✔act
a reference to a literary or historical person or event to explain a present situation -
answer✔✔allusion
A brief remark made by a character and intended to be heard by the audience but not by other
characters. - answer✔✔aside
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter - answer✔✔blank verse
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a humerous scene or speech in a drama which is meant to provide relief from emotional intensity
- answer✔✔comedic relief
a chivalric philosophy of love - answer✔✔courtly love
repetition of the same or similar in two or more close or consecutive words -
answer✔✔alliteration
a character who provides a contrast to another character - answer✔✔foil
a hint of what is to come in a story - answer✔✔foreshadowing
words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses - answer✔✔imagery
contrast of what is and what appears to be - answer✔✔irony
figure of speech that compares.two unlike things with out using like or as - answer✔✔metaphor
rhythmical pattern of a work - answer✔✔meter
a speech given by a character alone on stage - answer✔✔soliloquy
speech given by one character in a play, story, or poem - answer✔✔monologue
a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work. -
answer✔✔motiff
contrast of two contradictory terms - answer✔✔oxymoron
a statement that seems to contradict itself or seems false but is true - answer✔✔paradox
human qualities given to inanimate objects - answer✔✔personification
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem - answer✔✔rhyme scheme
a small unit of a play in which there is no shift of locale or time - answer✔✔scene
a figure of speech that compares using like or as - answer✔✔simile
a type of drama of human conflict which ends in defeat and suffering - answer✔✔tragedy
The lines of the prologue rhyme because it is meant to be sung by a chorus. What is the purpose
of the prologue? - answer✔✔to foreshadow what is to come
What small gesture starts the street brawl? What new law does Prince Escalus of Verona enact
after that fight? - answer✔✔one guy bites his thumb at the other guy, If you fight again I will kill
you, "
