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Worksheets"The Seven Ages of Man" by Shakespeare
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Jaques compares all men and women with players in a
game of polo
card game
stage production
child's game
"The Seven Ages of Man" describe
stories that start in the middle and then go back in time
acts in a play, ending with a conclusion
a popular, old English team sport related to soccer
human life from infancy to old age
According to the poem, the second stage in a man's life is the
schoolboy
lover
soldier
old man
The stage in a man's life that followers the lover is the
infant
schoolboy
soldier
old man
The man who is "full of wise saws" is the
soldier
justice
shrinking man
old man
A man is "sudden and quick in quarrel" during the age of the
schoolboy
soldier
lover
pantaloon
What is the characteristic of man in the third stage of life?
He writes ballads to his mistress
He takes strange oaths.
He carries a satchel
He wears pantaloons.
Why in one stage of life does man experience "a world to wide/For his shrunk shank"?
After a war, a hungry soldier does not fit into his uniform.
A lover feels smaller because the power of love is so large.
When a man becomes older, he also shrinks in size.
The judge understand that he makes big decisions.
Jaques makes old age seem
carefree
funny
dignified
sad
According to the speaker, the "players" in these seven acts of life
can choose whether or not to be in one of the acts
must wear glasses and stockings
enter as infants and exit as aged people
enter as adults and exit as school children
An extended metaphor is a(n)
metaphor that has a larger meaning
comparison developed over several lines or throughout an entire poem
analogy that is used in the first and third stanzas of a poem
metaphor that compares two unlike things in a single image
The extended metaphor in "The Seven Ages of Man" compares a
schoolboy and a snail
sighing lover and a furnace
person's life and a play
soldier and leopard
Jaques' long speech is an example of a
monologue
soliloquy
alliteration
connotation
The infant is described as "mewling and puking". What does this mean?
crying and spitting up
laughing and smiling
fussy and unhappy
sleeping and content
What are three things lost in "second childishness"?
teeth, eyes, and taste
hearing, strength, and appetite
breath, smell, and hearing
love, happiness, and wealth
