Twelfth Night-Unit 1 Test Review

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

Stress or emphasis placed on some syllables over others

The theater most associated with Shakespeare and his acting company.

Shakespeare wrote:

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

Blank verse is:

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

Whom does Feste work for?

The organization of words’ accents into a pattern.

A group of four lines in a poem

Twelfth Night is a______________.

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

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

Which statement is correct?

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

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

A synonym for poetry; written in lines and stanzas.

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

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

A two-syllable foot arranged stressed/unstressed

What is the metrical pattern of these lines?

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

Why is Olivia in morning, when the play begins?

Iambic pentameter is:

Toby Belch is:

A unit of development in poetry, like the prose paragraph

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

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

What is the opening scene of the play?

A play on word by the use of words that are alike in sound but different in meaning.

A two syllable foot accented unstressed/stressed

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

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

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

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

The pattern of rhyme employed in a poem.

Where is the play set?

Says the almost-dead Mercutio: "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man"

The theater in Southwark where Shakespeare’s plays were performed beginning in 1599.

The process of marking out meter and rhyme in poetry

Who brought Sir Andrew to town, and why?

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

Pentameter is:

tick-TOCK is a........

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