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WorksheetsDramatic Vocabulary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow / That I shall say good night till it be morrow” is a ________________, two lines of rhyme spoken by upper-class characters.
a)
couplet
b)
comedy
c)
soliloquy
d)
quatrains
2.
“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, / Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!” is an example of _________________ because of the intentional contradictions next to each other.
a)
comic relief
b)
blank verse
c)
oxymoron
d)
dramatic irony
3.
Romeo and Juliet is considered a ____________________ because it is a play that was meant to be performed by actors.
a)
comedy
b)
tragedy
c)
sonnet
d)
drama
4.
The ___________________ literally means “the ending words.”
a)
epilogue
b)
prologue
c)
dialogue
d)
monologue
5.
“How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath / To say to me that thou are out of breath?” This is an example of ____________________ or unrhymed iambic pentameter.
a)
sonnet
b)
blank verse
c)
couplet
d)
oxymoron
6.
The Act I Prologue of Romeo and Juliet, where it tells the viewers that the “star-cross’d lovers end their life,” but the characters don’t know it is an example of __________________.
a)
dialogue
b)
drama
c)
dramatic irony
d)
comedy
7.
Shakespeare has three __________________ in Romeo and Juliet – in the prologues of Act I and Act II and in the kissing scene at the Capulet party.
a)
sonnets
b)
soliloquies
c)
blank verses
d)
dialogues
8.
A play such as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, in which the main character(s) has a fatal flaw that makes him make poor decisions that usually results in his death is called a ____________________.
a)
prologue
b)
drama
c)
comedy
d)
tragedy
9.
The ____________________ literally means “the before words.”
a)
epilogue
b)
prologue
c)
monologue
d)
dialogue
10.
When Shakespeare has lower-class characters speak in the play, he uses regular __________________ to indicate their social status.
a)
monologue
b)
dialogue
c)
blank verse
d)
prologue
11.
When Mercutio gives his Queen Mab speech in Act I, he has Romeo, Benvolio, and other Montagues with him, so his speech is considered a __________________.
a)
dialogue
b)
soliloquy
c)
monologue
d)
blank verse
12.
When the Nurse tells her vulgar little stories and the Capulet servants brag about their fighting ability in the beginning of the play, Shakespeare is using ____________________ to ease some of the tension that is coming or has already come in the play.
a)
comic relief
b)
comedy
c)
tragedy
d)
drama
13.
When Juliet is alone in her room and talks about how wonderful Romeo is and how she wants to cut him out in little stars and brighten the heavens with him, her speech is a ____________________.
a)
dialogue
b)
soliloquy
c)
monologue
d)
blank verse
14.
A Shakespearean sonnet has three _____________________ in it, four lines of iambic pentameter that follow a specific rhyming scheme.
a)
soliloquies
b)
couplets
c)
blank verses
d)
quatrains
15.
A play such as As You Like It or A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which the characters fall in love, have some sort of mistaken identity, and ends happily is called a ___________________.
a)
tragedy
b)
drama
c)
comedy
d)
comic relief
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