Reading Shakespearean Notes Quiz

True or False: People do actually do and did speak this way (in prose and verse)

• False

• True

Shakespeare wrote this way for the following purposes:

• Create a poetic iambic pertameter

• To emphasize a word

• To give a character a specific pattern

• All of the above

The subject of a sentence is:

• the person or thing doing something

• the action

• having something done to it

• all of the above

The verb of a sentence is:

• the person or thing doing something

• the action

• having something done to it

• all of the above

The object of a sentence is:

• the person or thing doing something

• the action

• having something done to it

• all of the above

We speak in prose with no rhythmic meter

• True

• False

Five "feet" or ten syllables. Always sound like your heartbeat. William Shakespeare often wrote in this style.

• Rhyme scheme
• Alliteration
• Iambic pentameter
• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A poem with no specific rhyme scheme but usually in iambic pentameter/

• Free verse
• Sonnet
• Blank verse
• Ode

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is the

• stanza

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• foot

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is called a

• foot

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5