The winters tale

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which country does Cleomenes and Dion return from in Act 3 Scene 1 after visting the Oracle of Apollo?
Delphi
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pronoun used to create ambiguity when Hermione adresses Polixenes and Leontes in Act 1 Scene 2?
Royal We
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which stage of Shakespeare's career was the play written in?
late
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The Winters Tale is one of four __________ including Pericles, Cymbeline and The Tempest
problem plays
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a mixture of realism and ______ from Shakespeare is said to be what inspires his unclassified plays
cynicism
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Shakespeare follows the narrative of a novel written by who?
Robert Greene
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what is the title of the novel Shakespeare takes his narrative from?
The Triumph Of Time
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Autolycus and which other character is originally Shakespeare's?
clown
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wordplay, love triangles and mistaken identities/disguise are all features of which genre?
comedy
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fate, unexplainable forces, damaged property, death and an unhappy ending for the main character are features of which genre?
tragedy
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A literary work dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner that presents the innocence and serenity of a simple life and the misery and corruption of cities/court life is known as what?
Pastoral
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which country in the play historically occupies the western 2/3rds of the Czech Republic?
Bohemia
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which country has a cold setting and replicates the leaders coldnss and tragedy of the first 3 scenes?
Sicilia
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What is the Jacobean belief that everything in the universe has a specific place and rank in order of their perceived importance known as?
Divine Order
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godess of the underworld (greek equivalence is Persephone)
prosperine
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the myth of (Persephone) being abducted by Pluto and being mourned by her mother(the godess of harvest) shows the eternal change of the______
seasons
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italian artist and architect, a pupil of Raphael, comissioned to make a sculpture of Hermione (he was alive in the 1500s)
Giulio Romano
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Camillo describes Mamillius as a "_____ child" in Act 1 Scene 1
Gallant
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which Latin alternative to Mamillius means "Female breast" and suggests he has not yet reached his breaching day
Mamillia
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how old are boys in the Jacobean Era when they have their breaching day (stop breast feeding)?
Seven
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what kind of imagery is shown in "trained together...their rooted betwix them such an affection which cannot choose but branch now."
horticultural
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who says "i don't think in the world their is any malice or matter to alter it."
Camillo
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Camillo and Antigonus say Leontes son "makes ___ _____ fresh"
old hearts
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in Act 1 Scene 2 how many months have passed since polixenes left the sicilian throne?
nine
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in Act 1 scene 2, Polixenes is worried about what is happening back home in Bohemia when he says "what may chance or _____ upon our absence"
breed
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Hermione manages to persaude Polixenes to stay in sicilia when she says what?
force me to keep you as prisoner
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how does Polixenes describe his and leontes' relationship in "twinned lambs that did _____"
frisk
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what does Hermione describe wives as in Act 1 scene 2?
devils
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"one good deed, dying tonguless, _________ _ ________ waiting upon them"
slaughters a thousand
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what imagery does hermione use to express the unnapreciation of women in Act 1 Scene 2
livestock
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hermione says "our praises are our _____"
wages
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what's the first sign of Leontes' doubting that Mamillius is his?
smutched thy nose
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which cow imagery is used to describe both Mamillius as being mischevious and Hermione as loose
Wanton calf
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What does Leontes call Mamillius as a sign of affection?
sweet villian
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how does Polixenes describe his son, which portrays him possesively as well as draining
my parasite
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Leontes jealousy is shown in the statement describing Hermione as a "______ _____"
hobbie horse
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the paranoia of Leontes is shown in the quote "they're here with me already, ________, ________"
whispering rounding
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finish the cheeky comment made by Mamillius to show how blonde women were prefered over brunettes and hinted at the horns from cuckolding "your _____ are darker"
brows
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which metaphor refers to spiders and poisons made in Act 2 scene 1
partake no venom, for his knowledge is not infected
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"you have too much blood in him" is said by who in Act 2 scene 1?
Leontes
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Hermione is accused of being an "_________" in Act 2 Scene 1
adultress
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"what is this?sport?" is said by Hermione in Act 2 scene 1 and uses what writer's device?
rhetorical question
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what play on words does Shakespeare use in Act 2 scene 1?(2 words)
mistake mistook
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The Winters Tale is one of four __________ including Pericles, Cymbeline and The Tempest

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a mixture of realism and ______ from Shakespeare is said to be what inspires his unclassified plays

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