Shakespeare's conventions

Shakespeare wrote

• tragedies

• comedies

• histories

• all of the above

Romeo and Juliet is a

• tragedy

• comedy

• history

Hamlet is a

• tragedy

• comedy

• history

Shakespeare wrote in the

• Elizabethan era

• Jacobean era

• 16th and 17th century

• all of the above

Shakespeare wrote how many sonnets?

• 145

• 154

• 64

• 94

A Shakespearean convention was

• a play within a play

• disguises

• love at first sight

• all of the above

A soliloquy is

• when the character is alone and speaks their thoughts aloud.

• a monologue

• when the actor speaks directly to the audience

• when a character speaks to another character

An aside is

• when the characters make comments to each other or to the audience that the other characters never hear. Usually for a comic effect.

• the character speaking to another character

• Speeches in which characters think out loud, alone on stage, for the benefit of the audience.

A Shakespearean play has

• three acts

• four acts

• five acts

• two acts

The climactic act when the conflicts reach their peak is the

• second act

• third act

• fourth act

• fifth act