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WorksheetsDramatic Elements and Shakespeare
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is a soliloquy?
A speech, usually fairly long in length, that is given by a character to an intended audience
A brief reference to a notable person, place, thing, event, or idea in history, literature, or religion.
Contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence.
A speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts aloud to himself or herself.
What is a monologue?
A dramatic device wherein a character speaks to someone that is absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive, present, and able to reply.
A speech, usually fairly long in length, that is given by a character to an intended audience.
A speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts aloud to himself or herself.
A play on words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications.
What is iambic pentameter?
A speech, usually lengthy, that is given by a character to an intended audience.
A poetic meter that contains five feet. Each foot is made of an unstressed / stressed pattern.
A play on words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications.
A poetic meter that contains four feet. Each foot is made up of stressed / unstressed pattern
What is a couplet?
A dramatic device wherein a character speaks to someone that is absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive, present and able to reply.
Contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence.
A play on words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications.
A unit of poetic verse consisting of two successive lines. This device uses the same meter and rhyme, and forms a complete thought.
What is an aside?
A play on words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications.
A brief speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage.
A speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts aloud to himself or herself.
A unit of poetic verse consisting of two successive lines. This device uses the same meter and rhyme, and forms a complete thought.
A person of high status that suffers a downfall as a result of a personality flaw.
harmartia
antagonist
protagonist
tragic hero
The character in a tragedy or other work that serves to offend the main character
protagonist
antagonist
tragic hero
dramatic irony
A story chronicling the downfall of a person of hgh status as a result of a flaw in his personality
History
Comedy
Tragedy
Opera
Where was Shakespeare born?
Stratlord in Ayden
Center/ Scotland
Stratford on Avon
Scottish Highlands
Which number is the correct number of children born to Shakespeare?
1
2
3
4
5
Shakespeare's plays fall into 3 categories which are:
Mysteries/ Tragedies/ Parodies
Comedies/ Mysteries/ Eurypides
Histories/Comedies/Mysteries
Comedies/Histories/ Tragedies
Shakespeare is considered by many to be the
Greatest writer in the world
Greatest English Language writer of all time
A poet first then a parent
Baddest man alive
What country led the Renaissance?
England
Wales
Italy
Spain
Shakespeare was ____ when he wrote Romeo and Juliet
Young
Old
Middle aged
Ancient
Romeo and Juliet is based on an old legend
True
False
