Board games questions with answers

1. Who is the author of the Seven Ages of Man? Answer: William Shakespeare
2. Shakespeare Is often called as the Englands what? Answer: Englands National Poet
3. William Shakespeare is also known as? Answer: Bard of Avon
4. According to Shakespeare, what are the seven ages? Answer: Infant, school boy, lover,
soldier, justice, pantaloon, second childhood
5. How did William Shakespeare describe the infant? Answer: Mewling and puking
6. What does mewling mean? Answer: Crying loudly
7. How did William Shakespeare describe the school boy? Answer: Whining; creeping like a
snail
8. What does satchel mean? Answer: a long strapped bag carried at the shoulder
9. What does woeful mean? Answer: causing sorrow or misery; depressing, sad
10. What does oblivion mean? Answer: state of being
11. How did William Shakespeare describe the pantaloon? Answer: lean and slippered
12. What does pantaloon mean? Answer: old man
13. What does pard mean? Answer: panther, leopard
14. What does capon mean? Answer: roasted chicken
15. What does shank mean? Answer: leg
16. What does sans mean? Answer: without; lacking
17. Who is the speaker in the poem? Answer: The speaker is a man who is familiar with drama
and is expressing his many philosophical ideas on life.
18. What is the structure of the poem? Answer: free verse
19. To whom the speaker speak to? Answer: to the general audience
20. Second childhood means? Answer: state of forgetting about things; sans teeth, sans eyes,
sans taste, sans everything
21. What poetic techniques did Shakespeare use? Answer: Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance,
Imagery, Symbolism
22. How many lines does the poem Seven Ages of Man have? Answer: 28 lines
23. What kind of poem the Seven Ages of Man is? Answer: narrative poem
24. Ultimate Challenge. Give the meaning of the poem. Answer: It uses drama to symbolize and
portray life. It talks about the progression of life through time. As time goes by, man changes
greatly. From Shakespeare's eyes, life has been divided into seven separate stages. He talks
briefly about each of these seven stages throughout all of this short, but powerful poem.
25. Ultimate Challenge. Recite the poem Seven Ages of Man.
26. The pard is a symbol of______. (Fierce fullness)
27. What does Shrunk Shank means? (the sign of a man getting old)
28. The poet compares the world as a ______. (Stage)
29. The poet compares exits as ______. (death)
30. What do you call the second age of man according to the poem?
(whining school boy)
31. According to the poet, what does the lover do?
(making woeful ballads made to his mistress eyebrows)
32. Mewling and puking to the nurses arms. This stanza refers to the
first stage which is called? (infancy/infant)
33. In what stage the man is described as a soldier? (Fourth stage)
34. The seventh and last age of man was named as ________.
(second childishness/second childhood)
35. Creeping like a snail is an example of (Figure of speech). (simile)
36. Who wrote the seven ages of man? (William Shakesphere)
37. All the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely ________.
(players)
38. Name the seven ages of man according to the poem. (In order)
(infant, whining school boy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, second
childhood)

39. It is the third stage of man? (lover)

40. What does sans everything mean? (Complete darkness)
41. It is the sixth stage/age of the man according to the poem? (pantaloon)
42. All the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players is
what type of figures of speech? (metaphor)
43. Sighing like furnace is an example of _(Figures of speech)_. (simile)
44. Give the 2 characteristics of a infant based on the poem. (mewling and
puking)
45. Woeful ballad means ________. (Sad song)
46. Describe the fourth and fifth stage of mans life. (opinionated)
47. Jealous in honour, sudden quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble
reputation even in the cannons mouth.
48. Who is the person described by the stanza above? (soldier)
49. What traits characterize this stage? (Fierce and brave)
50. Explain the Phrase Seeking the bubble reputation even in the
cannons mouth
51. (Eagerness to get reputation even in times of danger)
52. What is the theme of the Seven Ages of Man? (Life)
53. How did the poet described man in the first stage of his life?
54. (Mewling and puking)
55. Why does the last stage of man called second childishness/second
childhood?
56. (Dependant like the first stage)
57. What does pantaloon mean? (old man)