Shakespeare Plays

A protagonist, or central character, who falls or dies because of a character flaw or cruel twist of fate.

• Foil

• Blank verse

• Aside

• Tragic hero

When a character speaks in order to be heard by the audience but not, supposedly, by the other characters.

• Pun

• Dramatic irony

• Chorus

• Aside

A speech given by a character onstage, alone, to let the audience know what he/she is thinking or feeling.

• Oxymoron

• Soliloquy

• Blank verse

• Chorus

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

Which of these plays was written by Shakespeare?

• Hamlet

• Macbeth

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

• All of them

Which of these titles are not a Shakespeare play?

• Macbeth

• Romeo and Juliet

• Twelfth Night

• Charlotte's Web

What kind of play did Hamlet ask the players to play?

• a musical

• Hamilton

• A play where a king is poisoned

• Romeo and Juliet

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

• 27

• 47

• 37

• 57

What types of plays did Shakespeare write?

• histories, tragedies, and comedies

• histories, couplets, and iambic pentameter

• comedies, tragedies, and farces

All of Shakespeare's plays have ​ (a)   acts.

• 5

• 3

• 4

• 10