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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where was Shakespeare born | Born in Stratford |
| How many siblings did he have | 3rd of 8 children |
| How was shakespeares education | Received excellent education with heavy focus on grammar and literature |
| When did Shakespeare get married and with who | Age 18 with Ann Hatheway |
| Describe Shakespeares children | 1st child was daughter, Susanna |
| What tragic event happened to Shakespeare | His son Hamnet died at 11 |
| What is the “Lost years” | The period between 1585 and 1592 is known as the “Lost Years” because there are no documentary records of Shakespeare’s activities |
| When Shakespeare moved to London what did he become and who did he work with | He became a actor and worked with Lord Chamberlin’s company of players, later known as the King’s Men |
| What are two comedies Shakespeare wrote | Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night |
| What are two tragedies Shakespeare wrote | Julius Caesar and Hamlet |
| How many successful plays did Shakespeare write | He wrote 37 very successful plays |
| Who is credited with I am constant as the Northern Star. and It’s all Greek to me. | Shakespeare |
| When did Shakespeare die and where | Died in Stratford in 1616 at the age of 52. Stratford England |
| What age did Shakespeare write in | Elizabethan age |
| What did Shakespeare refer to the Globe as | “This wooden O,” |
| What do the white flags of the globe represent | There is a play today |
| What time were plays performed in the globe theater | During the day |
| What were the people who stood by the stage called | Groundlings |
| Who played the female roles in plays | Young men |
| How was the Globe Theater destroyed | A fire |
| By what nickname is Shakespeare known | The Bard |
| The value of Shakespeare's writing is his | |
| What was Shakespeare's father's job | Glover and Leather, a marketer and businessman |
| What was the primary language studied by Shakespeare | Latin |
| What ancient writer influenced Shakespeare | Ovid |
| What did the dark lady represent in Shakespeare's plays | Obsessive love |
| How were theaters viewed by society during the Elizabethan age | Ungodly and immoral |
| How much of the theater did Shakespeare own | 10% |
| What was the first play performed at the Globe | Julius Caesar |
| What reward was Shakespeare given for his life's work | Code of Arms |
| The last play Shakespeare wrote | The tempest |
| What was ironic about the day Shakespeare died | It was his birthday |
| What is an Elision | The use of syllables to shorten words, with the omission indicated by the apostrophe |
| What is Thou | The form of you used as the subject of a sentence |
| Thee | The form of you used as an object |
| Thy | A possessive form of you |
| Thine | Possessive form of you before an initial vowel |
| What does Thou signal | The intimacy between a wife and husband is insulting to address someone as thou who is of a higher rank |
| What is Syntax, and where was it used | Words that create poetic rhythm and emphasize certain words in poems |
| What is Verse | Verse is writing arranged with a metrical rhythm (also known as poetry). Most of Shakespeare’s plays are written in verse. |
| What is prose | Prose is speech, not in lines of verse, such as everyday language |
| What is Iambic Pentameter | a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. |
| What is blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called blank verse. |
| Why is the change from verse to prose significant | Prose may be used to communicate urgency, informality, or disorganization. |
| What is a rhyming couplet | Two successive lines that are in the same meter and represent a complete thought. |
| What is a Soliloquy | When a speaker says his/her thoughts aloud on the stage alone, it is a soliloquy. |
| What is Motif | Recurrent images and words or pairs of opposites that produce patterns unifying a work and expressing its themes. |
| What is an Aside | One character makes a short comment, no others can hear what is said |
| What is a monologue | One character makes a longer speech that other characters can hear what is said |
| Dialogue | Shorter or longer speeches between 2 characters, others can hear |
| 3 important events with 509 BC | Roman republic, Tarquins out, senate phebians |
| when was caesar born | 100 B.C |
| When and who was the first triumvirate | 60 B.C. Pompey, Crassus, Caesar |
| 5 stages of a tragedy | Happy times, The introduction of the problem, The problem becomes a crisis, The characters are unable to prevent the problem from taking over, The problem results in some catastrophic, terrible ending which is the tragedy happens |
| Simile | the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid |
| Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. |
| Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech directly stating one thing is another |
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