English - Shakespeare Quiz

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The day that William Shakespeare was born.

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Mary Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s mom.

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John Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s dad.

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Anne Hathaway

William Shakespeare’s wife.

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The age when William Shakespeare left school due to his father losing his job.

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The amount of siblings that William Shakespeare had.

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14

The amount of lines in a sonnet.

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Catholic

The type of Christianity that William Shakespeare’s family practiced.

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1565

The year that John Shakespeare joined the civic order.

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1569

The year that John Shakespeare became mayor.

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Glover

The job that John Shakespeare had during William’s childhood.

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Selling wool

The secret, illegal job that John Shakespeare had.

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1571

The educational revolution.

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160

The amount of new schools that were created during the educational revolution.

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6

The amount of days per week that William Shakespeare attended school.

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6-5:30

The amount of time that William Shakespeare went to school per day.

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Catholic

The type of Christianity practiced by most of the teachers in William Shakespeare’s school.

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The age when William Shakespeare was introduced to poetry at “big school.”

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12

The age of William Shakespeare when his father lost his job which led to him losing his money and inheritance.

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Ovid

William Shakespeare’s favorite book.

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Queen Elizabeth

The person who was excommunicated by the Pope.

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8-9

The amount of years older Anne is than William.

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Through their father’s work

How Anne met William.

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Where William Shakespeare grew up.

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Whateley

Anne’s last name on the marriage papers.

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No, he was just the best at it.

Did William Shakespeare invent the Shakespearean stanza?

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Poetry

Concentrated language produced through rhythms and sounds. A heightened form of language also known as verse.

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Prose

“Ordinary language.”

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Meter

Regular rhythmic pattern in language.

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Iambic Pentameter/Blank Verse

A 10-syllable line.

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Iamb

A unit of speech that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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Penta

A word meaning 5.

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It resembled natural speech

Why William Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter.

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There wasn’t extra flashiness.

Why words were so important in an Elizabethan play.

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Inversion

When Shakespeare rearranges the word order to create new rhythms or to emphasize a particular word.

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Inversion

“He goes” vs “Goes he”

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Omission

When Shakespeare omits a whole word or part of a word to create rhymes.

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Omission

“Heard the news” vs “Have you heard the news”

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Archaic Language

When Shakespeare uses words differently than they are often used.

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Archaic Language

“heavy” in the sentence, “away from light steals home my heavy son”

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Classical Allusion

An indirect reference to something from Greek or Roman mythology.

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Biblical Allusion

An indirect reference to something from the Bible.

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Classical Allusion

“She sang like a Siren.”

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Biblical Allusion

“After losing his job, his wife, and his horse, it seemed his lot in life was much like Job’s.”

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Pun

Something that is created by playing with the sound of words to achieve particular effects such as amusement, thought provocation, clarification, or explanation.

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Paradox

A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

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Petrarchan Love

A love in which one lover emphasizes the paralyzing intensity of love, is anti-sex, is melancholy, and wants to be alone. They describe their lover as perfect and that her only fault is that she is mortal, yet she does not return his love.

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The Dark Lady

The lady that some of William Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to (sonnets 127-152).

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A mysterious man

Who most of William Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to.

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Laura

An example of Petrarchan Love in Shakespeare’s life seen in this woman: