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What is a literary foil?
Aluminum
Two characters that emphasize each other's traits.
Two characters that are enemies.
Two characters that begin as enemies and grow into friends.
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A Blank Poem...
Doesn't follow a meter but does rhyme
Doesn't rhyme and doesn't follow a meter
Doesn't rhyme but follows a meter
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What is another name for an onstage whisper?
Soliloquy
Aside
Monologue
Errant
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What is the official term for unadorned language called? (In other words, anything not poetry)
Anachronism
Sonnet
Prose
Talking
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What is a drama as it relates to Shakespeare?
A spat between two playwrights.
Any story written that is meant to be acted out.
A musical
One of the genres of plays he wrote.
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These often signal the exit of a character or end of a scene.
Puns
Comic Relief
Couplets
Oxymorons
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What part of a play offers a brief overview of the plot?
Prologue
Exposition
Pun
Epilogue
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A monologue is not meant to be heard by any other characters on stage
True
False
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The octave of a Petrarchan Sonnet follows which rhyme scheme?
ABBAABBA
ABCDABCD
ABABCDCD
ABCABCDD
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Comic Relief can only take place after a serious event in the plot.
True
False
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Bonus: What was the name of Shakespeare's theater?
The World's Theatre
The Planet Theater
The Globe Theatre
The Shakin' Spear Club
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Bonus: Which word is spelled incorrectly?
Questionnaire
Independant
Eligible
Misspelled
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Another name for a Shakespearean Sonnet
English Sonnet
Italian Sonnet
Elizabethan Sonnet
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A chorus must be singing to be considered a chorus.
True
False
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How many lines are in a sestet?
6
7
3
4
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How many syllables are in one iamb?
3
2
4
5
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When a character alone on stage (or they believe they're alone) gives a speech of their thoughts/feelings?
Monologue
Speech
Aside
Soliloquy
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How many lines are in a quatrain?
6
4
8
3
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What are the three genres Shakespeare wrote his plays in?
Dramas
Tragedies
Histories
Comedies
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What are the three reasons Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter?
It's easy to memorize lines in this meter
It is natural suited to the English language so it sounds pleasant to us
It was the Queen's favorite meter
It follows the rhythm of our hearts
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True or False: A couplet must rhyme
True
False
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A Petrarchan Sonnet is also called a(n)
English Sonnet
Shakespearean Sonnet
Italian Sonnet
Grecian Sonnet
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To make a Greek Tragedy, what all must happen to the protagonist?
They must change their view on life.
They must die.
They must lose everything.
They must bring about their own downfall.
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What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet?
ABBAABBA CDCDCD
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
ABAB CDCD EFEF EE
ABBAABBA CDECDE
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How many lines are in an octave?
10
6
4
8
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An anachronism is...
Two contradictory terms that come together to create a truth
A lessening of the seriousness of a plot
An event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
A play on words
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How many syllables are in one full line of Iambic Pentameter?
5
2
10
15
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What is a play on the multiple meanings of a word?
Oxymoron
Soliloquy
Pun
Prologue
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How many lines are in a sonnet?
11
14
10
90
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"Terribly Good" is an example of what?
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Personification
Onomatopoeia
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How many iambs are in one line of iambic pentameter?
5
6
3
2
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What are the two most common rhyme schemes of the sestet of a Petrarchan Sonnet?
CDCDCD
BCDBCD
CCCDDD
CDECDE
