SLO Post-Assessment English IV

Question 1

1. "Look like the innocent flower"

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 2

3. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage."

Accepted Answer

Metaphor

Question 3

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.

Accepted Answer

Wine

Question 4

22. Who is NOT a reason for the Shakespeare authorship controversy?

Accepted Answer

Ben Jonson

Question 5

29. What percent of people regularly attended the plays during the time of Shakespeare?

Accepted Answer

10%

Question 6

28. Which metrical foot were most of Shakespeare's plays written in?

Accepted Answer

Iambic Pentameter

Question 7

11. "And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp."

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 8

8. "Stars, hide your fire!"

Accepted Answer

Apostrophe

Question 9

2. "There's husbandry in heaven / Their candles are all out."

Accepted Answer

Alliteration

Question 10

9. "Some say the earth was feverous and did shake."

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 11

10. "My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar."

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 12

16. "Unsex me here and fill me from the toes to the top with direst cruelty."

Accepted Answer

Get rid of female softness that might reside inside of me.

Question 13

23. Who was the best actor of Shakespeare's day?

Accepted Answer

Ned Allyn

Question 14

6. "our country...weeps, it bleeds"

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 15

15. "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes"?

Accepted Answer

I have been hailed with titles that don't belong to me.

Question 16

14. My hands are of your color; but I shame to wear a heart so white.

Accepted Answer

Cowardly

Question 17

27. Which movie is NOT a Shakespeare plot remake?

Accepted Answer

Ever After

Question 18

30. A speech spoken by the character as if he or she is alone is called...

Accepted Answer

A soliloquy

Question 19

24. Who ruled England during the Jacobean period?

Accepted Answer

King James

Question 20

4. "What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."

Accepted Answer

Paradox

Question 21

5. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

Accepted Answer

Paradox, Alliteration

Question 22

18. "A little water clears us of this deed."

Accepted Answer

Let's wash the blood and guilt from our hands.

Question 23

25. How many lines are included in a Shakespearean sonnet?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 24

13. But wherefore could I not pronounce "amen"?

Accepted Answer

Why

Question 25

7. "Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless"

Accepted Answer

Paradox

Question 26

20. Who owned the right to the plays during the time of Shakespeare?

Accepted Answer

The acting company

Question 27

19. Who was the best playwright of Shakespeare's day?

Accepted Answer

Ben Jonson

Question 28

21. What was the title of Shakespeare's first published volume.

Accepted Answer

The First Folio

Question 29

17. "There's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody."

Accepted Answer

People aren't what they seem & we could be next.

Question 30

26. "Macbeth" was written to honor whom?

Accepted Answer

King James

SLO Post-Assessment English IV

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SLO Post-Assessment English IV

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