Background for Shakespeare/Julius Caesar

Question 1

What is an aside?

Accepted Answer

a character's remark to the audience or another character

Question 2

What is a pun?

Accepted Answer

A play on words

Question 3

What was the Globe Theatre?

Accepted Answer

A 3 story wooden building that held up to 3,000 theatregoers

Question 4

What did Elizabeth I support?

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She supported all the arts: literature, painting, theatre

Question 5

What is a simile?

Accepted Answer

comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Question 6

What is a tragic hero?

Accepted Answer

of nobility & has a tragic flaw that leads to their downfall

Question 7

What are rhetorical questions?

Accepted Answer

Questions that do not need an answer

Question 8

What is the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Renewal of interest in individual human achievement

Question 9

What is foreshadowing?

Accepted Answer

using hints and clues to suggest what will happen later

Question 10

What is a couplet?

Accepted Answer

two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Question 11

Who is William Shakespeare?

Accepted Answer

English poet, playwright, and actor,

Question 12

What made Shakespeare wealthy?

Accepted Answer

Owner of the Globe Theatre and publishing his plays & poems

Question 13

What is unique about the day Shakespeare is thought to have been born (April 23rd)?

Accepted Answer

It was the day he died

Question 14

This type of play ended happily and could contain comedy:

Accepted Answer

comedy

Question 15

What is a soliloquy?

Accepted Answer

speech given by a character (alone) to reveal their feelings

Question 16

Shakespeare was born in

Accepted Answer

Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 17

What is blank verse?

Accepted Answer

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 18

What is dramatic irony?

Accepted Answer

when the audience knows more than the character(s)

Question 19

Why is William Shakespeare's early life such a mystery?

Accepted Answer

Literary biographies were uncommon in the Elizabethan period

Question 20

Which group of people stood in the pit to watch a play?

Accepted Answer

groundlings

Question 21

In many tragedies, a hero's downfall is a result of:

Accepted Answer

fate/character flaw

Question 22

What is ethos?

Accepted Answer

an ethical appeal

Question 23

This type of play ended unhappily, usually with the death of a tragic hero:

Accepted Answer

Tragedy

Question 24

What is alliteration?

Accepted Answer

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 25

What is logos?

Accepted Answer

a logical appeal

Question 26

How did Queen Elizabeth I change England?

Accepted Answer

Attracted talented and ambitious individuals, Steered England down a road of stability and prosperity

Question 27

What is used to make speech appeal to a person's emotions and make the speech more convincing:

Accepted Answer

rhetorical devices

Question 28

What was the platform that extended out into the pit called?

Accepted Answer

the stage

Question 29

What is a tragic flaw?

Accepted Answer

When the tragic hero has an error in judgment, When the tragic hero has a character defect

Question 30

When was the Globe Theatre built?

Accepted Answer

1599

Question 31

What is comic relief?

Accepted Answer

a mildly humorous scene following a serious one

Question 32

What was the Elizabethan Age?

Accepted Answer

When Elizabeth I became queen of England

Question 33

What theatre company was Shakespeare affiliated with prior to the Globe Theatre?

Accepted Answer

Lord Chamberlain's Men

Question 34

What is parallelism?

Accepted Answer

words, phrases, or sentences having similar grammatical form

Question 35

Which group of people were fortunate enough to be able to sit and watch a play?

Accepted Answer

wealthy

Question 36

Only males acted in Shakespeare's plays?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

What did Shakespeare want to explore as a playwright?

Accepted Answer

Understanding how people deal with universal problems

Question 38

What is pathos?

Accepted Answer

using emotional appeal

Question 39

When was William Shakespeare born?

Accepted Answer

1564

Question 40

What is a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

comparison of two unlike things not using like or as

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