Shakespeare Language Check

Here in lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;

Without this folly, age, and cold decay

• Shakespeare

• Taylor Swift

What type of language did Shakespeare use?

• Old English

• Modern English

• Latin

• Early Modern English

What does "hither" mean?

• Hit her

• here

• hill

• over there

How might Shakespeare have said "hello"?

• Greetings!

• Good morning!

• Ho!

• Aye!

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

• Researched

• Written

• Presumed

• Falsified

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

• True

• False

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

• Free verse

• Iambic pentameter

• Quatrains

• Sonnet form

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

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

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

• A) Anon

• B) Forthwith

• C) Presently

• D) Instantly