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Shakespeare Plays & Devices

Authored by Heather Haunert

English

9th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Shakespeare Plays & Devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is the English Sonnet's Rhyme Scheme?

a b b a a b b ac d e c d e  
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who created the sonnet?

Petrarch
Wyatt
Shakespeare
Burbage

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How many lines are in a sonnet? 

12
14
10
16

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern.

trochee

dactyl

anapest

iamb

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet.

Sestet

Iamb

Quatrain

Couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A joke that results from multiple word meanings or rhyming sounds, e.g., A horse is a very stable animal.

Oxymoron

Pun

Chorus

Oliloquy

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A 14-line poem, typically about love or romance, that contains three quatrains (sets of four lines) and a rhyming couplet. Written in iambic pentameter, and follow the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

Iambic pentameter

Sonnet

Blank verse

Chorus

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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