Shakespeare Language

1. How many new words is Shakespeare credited with having introduced into the English language?

• 1200

• 1700

• 7,100

• 30,000

2. What’s an example of a word that Shakespeare introduced into the English language?

3. What’s one technique that readers can use to grasp the meanings of difficult words?

• use context clues

• skip them and forget them

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• translate them to english

4. What does the word incarnadine mean when it gets used by Macbeth?

• red

• sea

• green

• hand

5. During the Renaissance period, how did the two second-person pronouns, you and thou, differ?

• second and third person

• formal and informal

• English and Latin

• Shakespeare and Chaucer

6. In Shakespeare’s day, if one were addressing a servant, would one be more likely to use you or thou?

• you

• thou

7. Why might Shakespeare have chosen to use the prefix un- so frequently in Macbeth?

• annul personality traits and/or undo actions

• to contrast intentions from actions

• to create a double negative

• to demontrate genders

What is a malapropism?

• incorrect word used in pace of a similar sounding word

• a swear word

• a word with the opposite meaning of what one thinks

• a feeling word, similar to onomatopoeia

9. What is one idiomatic phrase coined by Shakespeare?

What author is quoted to have stated in their novel that Shakespeare's lines "are quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with with his descriptions."