Shakespeare Review

In Shakespeare’s plays, blank verse was used for the noblest characters (kings/queens) or spirits .

What was Shakespeare NOT allowed to write about?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all of Shakespeare's comedies?

Which one of these is NOT a characteristic of a sonnet?

Grounders were the name given to the audience members that stood in the pit.

Shakespeare wrote his plays using

An inverted sentence is a play on words.

Who owned the Globe Theater?

Wealthier patrons sat in what part of the Globe Theater?

The plague caused the closure of the theaters for a time.

Prose is speech or written dialogue in unusual sentence form

Iambic Pentameter means each line has 12 syllables.

The theaters put posters up to let people know what they were performing.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all of Shakespeare's tragedies?

Pentameter means the line has 5 iambs

Meter is a pattern of accented syllables

Only men and boys were allowed to act on stage during Shakespeare's time.

A couplet is 3 lines that share syllable count and rhymed

During Shakespeare's time, plays were mostly performed during the day.

The death of Shakespeare's son was devastating because Shakespeare no longer had a male heir to inherit his property.

Shakespeare did NOT write which of the following types of plays?

One type of poetry that Shakespeare used was

Shakespeare's plays can be difficult to understand because of the poetry he used.

In Shakespeare’s plays, working-class characters generally spoke in prose.

Blank Verse is unrhymed poetry with meter

__________ is the name given to the rhythm of a poem.