Shakespeare Language Check

Here in lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;

Without this folly, age, and cold decay

• Shakespeare

• Taylor Swift

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of language did Shakespeare use?

• Old English

• Modern English

• Latin

• Early Modern English

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does "hither" mean?

• Hit her

• here

• hill

• over there

How might Shakespeare have said "hello"?

• Greetings!

• Good morning!

• Ho!

• Aye!

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

More has been ____ about Shakespeare than any other author in the world.

• Researched

• Written

• Presumed

• Falsified

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

True or false: Many of Shakespeare's phrases are part of our everyday speech and language today.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Shakespeare's plays and poems are written in this form:

• Free verse

• Iambic pentameter

• Quatrains

• Sonnet form

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

An "aside" is when:

• a character speaks directly to the audience, but other characters on stage do not hear them

• the characters all move to the side of the stage so the main character can speak

• a character speaks lines while they are backstage

• a character says their thoughts out loud

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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

What is a soliloquy?

• when a character sings and dances alone on stage

• when a character speaks their thoughts aloud to the audience

• when a character messes up their lines and runs offstage, crying

• when a character speaks directly to the audience

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Which of the following words is a Shakespearean term for 'immediately'?

• A) Anon

• B) Forthwith

• C) Presently

• D) Instantly