Shakespeare Vocab Quiz

What is the definition of monologue?

• A short speech given by one person

• A long speech given by a group

• A long speech given by one person

• A short given by a group

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

True or False: Soliloquy is when someone is speaking their thoughts aloud alone.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

How many lines are in a Shakespearean Sonnet?

• 10

• 16

• 18

• 14

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a couplet?

• 4 lines that don't rhyme and don't have the same meter

• 2 lines that have the same meter but don't rhyme

• 2 lines that rhyme and have the same meter

• 4 lines that rhyme and have the same meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a quatrain?

• A stanza that has 6 lines that don't alternate.

• A stanza that has 4 lines and alternates.

• A stanza that has 3 lines and alternates.

• A stanza that has 6 lines and alternates.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• baba-dcdc-fefe-gg

• abba-cddc-effe-gg

• abab-cdcd-efef-gg

• abab-cdcd-efef-ee

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

True or False: A Shakespearan sonnet is written in a Petrarchan Pentameter.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What are the first 12 lines of the sonnet divided into?

• Couplets

• Monologues

• Soliloquy

• Quatrains

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What does Iambic Pentameter consist of?

• 5 metrical feet, unstressed and stressed syllables per foot, and 10 syllables per line

• 6 metrical feet, stressed syllables, and 12 syllables per line

• 5 metrical feet, unstressed and stressed syllables per foot, and 12 syllables per line

• 6 metrical feet, unstressed syllables, and 10 syllables per line

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What does solo from Latin mean?

• "Alone"

• "To be in a group"

• "To oneself"

• "Many"

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A