English Final Exam
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- irascible
- easily made angry, hot tempered, cantankerous
- Stratford upon Avon
- town Shakespeare was born in
- impart
- to make known or pass something on
- Robert Frost
- wrote The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Puck
- mischievious fairy that uses Cupid's flower to change loves
- Internal Rhyme
- rhyming words within a line of a poem
- vex
- to annoy or exasperate, irk, irritate, distress
- Demetrius
- Man that comes to love Helena
- falter
- to hesitate or lose drive, waver
- Walt Whitman
- wrote O captain, my Captain!
- The Funeral
- is Free verse and includes a hyperbole
- Kay Ryan
- wrote Turtle
- Anne Hathaway
- Shakespeare's wife
- Slant Rhyme
- rhyming words that sound alike but not exactly
- impending
- about to happen, hanging over in a menacing way. imminent, upcoming
- Gordon Parks
- wrote the Funeral
- Casey at the Bat
- a narrative quatrain with rhyme.
- Suzanna
- Shakespeare's first daughter
- Alliteration
- repitition of initial consonant sounds
- Bottom
- Stock character whose head is turned into that of a donkey
- Consonance
- repitition of consonant sounds or patterns at the end of words
- inert
- lifeless, unable to move or act, lethargic
- Figurative language
- comparisons or descriptions that are not meant to be taken literally
- Ben Johnson
- put together Shakespeare's folio
- Lysander
- Man that loves Hermia
- Earl of Southampton
- Sonnets possibly written for
- wry
- twisted, grimly humorous, dryly amusing, ironic
- Elizabeth I
- queen during Shakespeare's life
- Analysis of Baseball
- Has consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and imagery
- May Swenson
- wrote Analysis of Baseball
- Theseus
- Athenian ruler that conquered Amazons
- Wang Lung
- poor farmer that undergoes many changes of fortune
- reciprocal
- involving give and take between two people, mutual
- O Captain, My Captain!
- Metaphors for Lincoln and the Civil War
- naive
- showing lack of worldly knowledge, green
- Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- wrote Casey at the Bat
- conventional
- in line with accepted ideas or standards, orthodox, commonplace
- The Road Not Taken
- has symbols about a life choice
- Oberon
- wants changeling from Titania
- Actor
- profession of Shakespeare while writing plays and poems
- judicious
- using or showing good judgement, prudent, astute
- Quatrain
- four line stanzas
- Free Verse
- a poem without specific rhythm, rhyme, or line/stanza structure
- Hermia
- Woman that loves Lysander
- voracious
- having a huge appetite, greedy, insatiable, gluttonous
- Simile
- a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as
- dextrous
- skillful in use of hands of body, agile, deft
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- about a man a long way from home, mourning loss perhaps?
- Ovid
- classical author that influenced Shakespeare
- End Rhyme
- rhyming words at the end of lines
- exasperate
- irritate, annoy, anger, vex
- awry
- in a turned or twisted position or direction, crooked, askew, amiss
- Rudyard Kipling
- wrote If
- arrogant
- haughty, high-handed, presumptuous
- rue
- to regret, a feeling of regret, lament, repent
- Narrative poem
- tells a story with characters and plot
- Metaphor
- a figure of speech comparing two unlike things
- adapt
- to adjustr or change to suit conditions, regulate, alter
- O-Lan
- Wang's faithful wife
- Globe Theatre
- theater that was partially owned by Shakespeare
- 1592
- Year Shakespeare was an established playwright
- disgruntled
- in bad humor, annoyed, grumpy, surly
- capitulate
- to end resistance, surrender
- Rhythm
- pattern of beats or stressed and unstressed syllables
- fallacy
- a false notion or error in thinking, misconception
- negligent
- marked by carelessness and indifference, derelict, remiss
- abdicate
- to resign or discard, relinguish, renounce
- Stanza
- formal divisions of lines in a poem, usually separated by spaces
- Men
- played all the roles in shakespeare's plays
- Couplet
- two line stanzas, usually rhyming
- Helena
- Woman that loves Demetrius
- quirk
- a peculiar way of acting, eccentricity
- 1596
- Year Hamnet died
- 1613
- Year globe theatre burned down
- estrange
- to drift apart, become unfriendly, alienate
- Onomatopoeia
- words that imitate sounds
- Assonance
- repitition of vowel sounds
- Personification
- giving human characteristics to a non-human object
- Plague
- caused Globe to be shut down
- apt
- suitable, fitting, likely, quick to learn, appropriate, liable
- Hyperbole
- an extreme exagerration
- crucial
- of supreme importance, decisive, pivotal, vital
- 1616
- year Shakespeare died
- Mistress
- Old woman addicted to opium
- Titania
- fairy queen
- Father
- traditional old man
- King Lear
- One of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies
- rote
- unthinking repetition or routine
- If
- Personification and how a person should morally behave
- negate
- to nullify, bring to nothing. invalidate, annul
- Hippolyta
- Amazonian woman that will marry Theseus
- imperative
- necessary or urgent, essential, indispensible
- ruse
- an action intended to confuse or mislead, strategem, subterfuge
- pertinent
- related to the matter at hand, germane, apropos
- enormity
- the quality of exceeding all moral grounds, atrocity, vastness
- trepidation
- fear, fright. dread, apprehension
- Imagery
- using sensory words to describe something
- calamitous
- causing great misfortune, catastrophic, ruinous
- Turtle
- Includes internal rhyme and personification