Academic Vocabulary and Language in The Tempest Quiz

What is iambic pentameter often compared to?

• A ticking clock

• A heartbeat

• A flowing river

• A drumbeat

What is the term for two lines written in iambic pentameter that end in the same sound?

• Rhyming couplets

• Free verse

• Prose

• Antithesis

What is the term for when two opposites are put together?

• Antithesis

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

What is prose in Shakespeare's plays?

• A structured form of poetry

• A conversational way of speaking

• A type of song

• A form of dance

What is the Latin word for the number five, as used in 'iambic pentameter'?

• Quinque

• Decem

• Septem

• Pent

What is the opposite of 'light' as used in the context of antithesis?

• Bright

• Dark

• Soft

• Heavy

Iambic Pentameter is a metrical pattern in poetry consisting of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables per line.

• True

• False

Shakespeare wrote in...

• diameter

• trochaic triameter

• rhymes

• iambic pentameter

What is the ryhthm of iambic pentameter meant to sound like?

• A lawnmower
• The human heartbeat
• The flow of water

What is the stress pattern of an iamb?

• stressed, unstressed

• unstressed, stressed

• stressed, stressed

• unstressed, unstressed