Vocabulary List # 7: Shakespeare’s Sayings: Complete the ...



Vocabulary List # 10: Shakespeare’s Sayings: Complete the following exercises for each saying. Then choose 5 sayings from the list on the back to complete the activities below for as well. You should have a total of 15 when you are done.

A. Draw an illustration for the saying. Be creative!

B. Use the saying in a scenario or sentence

C. State which Shakespearean play the saying is from (you can find them all at )

1. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger: a person or thing that is viewed more with sadness than with anger. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

2. A Daniel come to judgment: Someone who makes a wise judgment about something that has previously proven difficult to resolve. Shakespearean play: ___________________________________

3. A dish fit for the gods An offering of high quality. Shakespearean play: ________________________

4. A fool's paradise: A state of happiness based on false hope. Shakespearean play: _________________

5. A foregone conclusion: A decision made before the evidence for it is known. An inevitable conclusion. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

6. A ministering angel shall my sister be: To minister is to serve, or act as a subordinate agent. So, a ministering angel is a kind-hearted person, providing help and comfort. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

7. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: What matters is what something is, not what it is called. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

8. All that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not gold : A showy article may not necessarily be valuable. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

9. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: Life is like a play - we merely go through the stages of our life acting it out. Shakespearean play: _____________________________

10. As dead as a doornail: Dead - devoid of life (when applied to people, plants or animals). Finished with - unusable (when applied to inanimate objects). Shakespearean play: ___________________________

DUE: January 27, 2011 AFTER EXAMS; Quiz will be only on the first 10 phrases; you may choose to do up to 25 for up to 10 points extra credit (there will be no extra credit on this quiz.).

Vocabulary List # 10: Shakespeare’s Sayings: Complete the following exercises for each saying. Then choose 5 sayings from the list on the back to complete the activities below for as well. You should have a total of 15 when you are done.

1 Draw an illustration for the saying. Be creative!

B. Use the saying in a scenario or sentence

C. State which Shakespearean play the saying is from (you can find them all at )

1. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger: a person or thing that is viewed more with sadness than with anger. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

2. A Daniel come to judgment: Someone who makes a wise judgment about something that has previously proven difficult to resolve. Shakespearean play: ___________________________________

3. A dish fit for the gods An offering of high quality. Shakespearean play: ________________________

4.A fool's paradise: A state of happiness based on false hope. Shakespearean play: _________________

5.A foregone conclusion: A decision made before the evidence for it is known. An inevitable conclusion. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

6.A ministering angel shall my sister be: To minister is to serve, or act as a subordinate agent. So, a ministering angel is a kind-hearted person, providing help and comfort. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

7. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: What matters is what something is, not what it is called. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

8.All that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not gold : A showy article may not necessarily be valuable. Shakespearean play: _____________________________________

9.All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: Life is like a play - we merely go through the stages of our life acting it out. Shakespearean play: _____________________________

10.As dead as a doornail: Dead - devoid of life (when applied to people, plants or animals). Finished with - unusable (when applied to inanimate objects). Shakespearean play: ___________________________

DUE: January 27, 2011 AFTER EXAMS; Quiz will be only on the first 10 phrases; you may choose to do up to 25 for up to 10 points extra credit (there will be no extra credit on this quiz.).

As merry as the day is long

As pure as the driven snow

At one fell swoop

Beast with two backs

Beware the ides of March

Brevity is the soul of wit

But screw your courage to the sticking-place

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me

Come what come may

Comparisons are odorous

Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble

Eaten out of house and home

Et tu, Brute

Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog

Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man

Fight fire with fire

For ever and a day

Frailty, thy name is woman

Foul play

Green eyed monster

He will give the Devil his due

Heart's content

High time

I bear a charmed life

I have not slept one wink

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

In a pickle

In the twinkling of an eye

It is meat and drink to me

Like the Dickens

Love is blind

Make your hair stand on end

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water

Much Ado about Nothing

Mum's the word

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Night owl

Oh, that way madness lies

Out of the jaws of death

Pound of flesh

Rhyme nor reason

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything

Screw your courage to the sticking place

Send him packing

Set your teeth on edge

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Short shrift

Shuffle off this mortal coil

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Star crossed lovers

Stiffen the sinews

Stony hearted

Such stuff as dreams are made on

The course of true love never did run smooth

The crack of doom

The Devil incarnate

The game is afoot

The game is up

The quality of mercy is not strained

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on

Thereby hangs a tale

This is the short and the long of it

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it

To be or not to be, that is the question

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub

Too much of a good thing

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

Vanish into thin air

We have seen better days

Wear your heart on your sleeve

What a piece of work is man

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions

While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!

Wild goose chase

As merry as the day is long

As pure as the driven snow

At one fell swoop

Beast with two backs

Beware the ides of March

Brevity is the soul of wit

But screw your courage to the sticking-place

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me

Come what come may

Comparisons are odorous

Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble

Eaten out of house and home

Et tu, Brute

Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog

Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man

Fight fire with fire

For ever and a day

Frailty, thy name is woman

Foul play

Green eyed monster

He will give the Devil his due

Heart's content

High time

I bear a charmed life

I have not slept one wink

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

In a pickle

In the twinkling of an eye

It is meat and drink to me

Like the Dickens

Love is blind

Make your hair stand on end

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water

Much Ado about Nothing

Mum's the word

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Night owl

Oh, that way madness lies

Out of the jaws of death

Pound of flesh

Rhyme nor reason

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything

Screw your courage to the sticking place

Send him packing

Set your teeth on edge

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Short shrift

Shuffle off this mortal coil

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Star crossed lovers

Stiffen the sinews

Stony hearted

Such stuff as dreams are made on

The course of true love never did run smooth

The crack of doom

The Devil incarnate

The game is afoot

The game is up

The quality of mercy is not strained

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on

Thereby hangs a tale

This is the short and the long of it

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it

To be or not to be, that is the question

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub

Too much of a good thing

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

Vanish into thin air

We have seen better days

Wear your heart on your sleeve

What a piece of work is man

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions

While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!

Wild goose chase

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