Standard Deviants Shakespeare Background

Question 1

Name of the Greek philosopher that spelled out his ideas on tragedy in "The Poetics."

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Question 2

Shakespeare often wrote in blank verse because it:

Accepted Answer

closely resembles the natural rhythms of speech

Question 3

What is another name for poetry?

Accepted Answer

verse

Question 4

The Elizabethan audience believed that weather and other natural events in plays...

Accepted Answer

were symbolic of the plot or characters

Question 5

During the English Renaissance, actors were...

Accepted Answer

not highly esteemed but highly patronized.

Question 6

Why did all London theatres close for two years during 1592?

Accepted Answer

the plague

Question 7

Which of the following describes the syllable structure of an iamb?

Accepted Answer

unstressed, stressed

Question 8

The language of everyday, ordinary speech is ___________.

Accepted Answer

prose

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT one of Shakespeare's plays?

Accepted Answer

Faustus

Question 10

How many iambs does a line of perfect iambic pentameter contain?

Accepted Answer

five

Question 11

The English Renaissance was a time of...

Accepted Answer

immense creativity in the arts.

Question 12

William Shakespeare lived and wrote during the...

Accepted Answer

Elizabethan Era

Question 13

Where was Shakespeare born?

Accepted Answer

Stratford

Question 14

In Elizabethan plays, the most important element of the drama was...

Accepted Answer

the words

Question 15

A concentrated and heightened from of language, produced through rhythm and sound...

Accepted Answer

poetry

Question 16

What was Shakespeare's birth and death date?

Accepted Answer

April 23

Question 17

In terms of symbolic art, which of the following is a universal?

Accepted Answer

justice

Question 18

Shakespeare wrote two book-length poems, "Venus and __________" and "The Rape of ___________."

Accepted Answer

Adonis; Lucrece

Question 19

the use of a regular rhythm pattern in language

Accepted Answer

meter

Question 20

Shakespeare's last plays were...

Accepted Answer

A Winter's Tale and The Tempest

Question 21

Shakespeare was a member of what theatrical company?

Accepted Answer

Lord Chamberlain's Men

Question 22

Spectators at the Globe who stood on the ground in front of the stage while watching a play?

Accepted Answer

groundlings

Question 23

Unrhymed iamic pentamter; use a lot in Macbeth, is called

Accepted Answer

blank verse

Question 24

The Globe Theatre was shaped like a/an...

Accepted Answer

"O"

Question 25

William Shakespeare died at the age of _______.

Accepted Answer

52

Question 26

What year was William Shakespeare born?

Accepted Answer

1564

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