Much Ado About Nothing-Unit 1 Test Review

Two syllables; there are five of these per line in a pentameter poem

The theater most associated with Shakespeare and his acting company.

Writing that is not poetry or verse; composed in sentences and paragraphs

The changing and resting rooms for actors, behind the stage in Elizabethan theater

A section of development in a poem which corresponds to a prose paragraph

A two-syllable foot accented with strong, equal stress on both syllables like TICK-TOCK

The references to Cupid in the passage below are examples of:

T or F: In this era, Elizabethan clothes, often “hand-me-downs” from patrons, was used onstage

A character addresses the audience, offering valuable information in relation to the plot or characters

Much Ado About Nothing is a______________.

Which character swears they will never marry?

Three quatrains and a couplet follow with a rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

Blank verse is:

Who played the comic dame roles (older ladies) in Elizabethan era theater?

Dramatic technique in which a single character talks aloud inner thoughts to himself or herself

Which of the following is not a convention of Shakespearean comedy?

Shakespeare wrote:

Pentameter is:

A play on words, usually using words that are nearly alike in sound but different in meaning.

Festive courtly entertainment with music, dancing, singing, acting w/an elaborate stage design

A group of four lines in a poem 

A group of actors who perform plays for short periods of time, moving on from 1 work to another

The organization of words’ accents into a pattern.

A two-syllable foot arranged stressed/unstressed

The lines in the image are:

caCHE and reVOLVE are both examples of:

An early rival to Shakespeare was ----whose most famous works include “Doctor Faustus”

Where is the play set?

What is the metrical pattern of these lines?

Which of the following is NOT a convention of Elizabethan comedy?

True or False? Elizabethan stages were ornate, with elaborate backdrops and set design.

The following is an example of:-----“The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry”

A synonym for poetry; written in lines and stanzas.

This form of irony occurs when the audience possesses knowledge that characters do not

Stress or emphasis placed on some syllables over others

Iambic pentameter is:

A group of four lines in a poem

Malapropism is:

The process of marking out meter and rhyme in poetry

The pattern of rhyme employed in a poem.

A two syllable foot accented unstressed/stressed

What is the opening scene of the play?

True or false? Shakespeare was both a playwright and an actor.

The the younger female roles played during Elizabethan times by young boys.