Shakespeare Lit Terms 2025 5.0
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is an allusion?
A direct statement
A reference to a familiar literary, historical, or religious person or event
A type of irony
A poetic device.
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.L.7.5A
CCSS.RI.8.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In Shakespeare's plays, what is the CHORUS?
A group of dancers
A single character who serves as a narrator
A group of musicians
A set of props
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.8.7
CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows something that a character does not
When you say one thing but you mean something else
A form of allusion
A play on words
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.8.7
CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A joke that relies on a play on two words that sound similar is a(n) ______.
pun
oxymoron
allusion
aside
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.8.7
CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A sonnet is a 14 line poem with a regular rhyme scheme, ending in a ______.
Rhyming couplet
Soliloquy
Metaphor
Pun
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Personification involves giving ______ traits to non-human things.
Animal
Human
Alien
Plant
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the term for paired, opposite words, or an expression that combines contradictory ideas? (For example, when Romeo says, "brawling love" and "loving hate.")
dramatic irony
tragedy
oxymoron
tragic flaw
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.8.7
CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10
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