What is Verse in Shakespearean Language

Refers to rhymed or unrhymed iambic pentameter.

A monologue performed directly to the audience. Breaking the 4th wall.

What three elements affect movement through time

Clothing Restrictions(Fashion), Societal Norms, Economics

What is Authorial Context

Writing from the author's personal experiences

What are the groundlings?

The poor who stood in the open yard at the Globe

A character's extended speech. One person speaking for a period of time.

What is a tiring house at the Globe?

A place for actors to be backstage like a green room.

A character speaking their inner thoughts to themselves outloud

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Shakespeare Life and Language

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1
What theater is most associated with Shakespeare (He help to create and was one of the founding members)?
The Round Theater
The Bear Theater
The Big Theater
The Globe Theater
2
Who sits in the gallery?
The royalty
The poor
The middle and upper class
3
What is Verse in Shakespearean Language
Refers to rhymed or unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Same as Prose
No Rhythm or Rhyme at all
4
Iambic Pentameter is like five heart beat rhythms. Da-DUM, Da-DUM, Da-DUM, Da-DUM, Da-DUM,
False
True
5
What is an aside?
A monologue performed in a certain place
A monologue of the characters inner thoughts to themselves
A monologue performed directly to the audience. Breaking the 4th wall.
A monologue as if to another character on stage.
6
What three elements affect movement through time
Clothing Restrictions, Dreams, Goals
Clothing Restrictions(Fashion), Societal Norms, Economics
Clothing Restrictions, right, and wrong
Levels Planes and body Positions
7
What is Authorial Context
Imagining life from a different point of view
NOT writing from the author's point of view
Writing from a character's point of view
Writing from the author's personal experiences
8
What are the groundlings?
The actors in the globe
The animals in the globe
The poor who stood in the open yard at the Globe
The wealthy who sat in the galleries
9
What is a monologue
Two characters speaking to eachother
A character's extended speech. One person speaking for a period of time.
A character breaking the 4th wall
A character speaking their inner thoughts to themselves
10
Shakespeare's Language is considered Old English
False
True
11
Shakespeare wrote over 36 plays
True
False
12
What does "universal" refer to in regards to Shakespeare?
Shakespeare only wrote for the wealthy
Shakespeare wrote for everyone
Shakespeare only wrote for the poor
Shakespeare only wrote for his time period
13
What is a tiring house at the Globe?
A place for actors to be backstage like a green room.
A place to make tires
A place to gamble
A place to house tires
14
What time period is Shakespeare from?
Greek
Renaissance (Elizabethan)
Baroque
Victorian
15
Shakespeare had three children.
False
True
16
What is a soliloquy
A monologue performed directly to the audience. Breaking the 4th wall.
A character speaking their inner thoughts to themselves outloud
A monologue as if to another character on stage.
A monologue performed in a certain place
17
What is Prose in Shakespeare?
The same as verse
Normal Speech, no pattern
Rhythm and Rhyme changes
18
Which is an example of Inverted Syntax
A Cake Jane Ate
Jane Ate a Cake
19
Where was Shakespeare born?
London
Stratford-Upon-Avon
Wessex
Shakespeareland
20
Who was Shakespeare's wife
Anne Hathaway
Queen Elizabeth
Annie Bo Jenkins
Coco Chanel

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