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Macbeth Quotes, Figurative Language, and Shakespeare History Review
Macbeth Quotes, Figurative Language, and Shakespeare History Review
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1
Which movie is not a Shakespearean plot remake?
Ever After
The Lion King
Ten Things I Hate About You
West Side Story
2
A reference in a literary work to people from history, another literary work, etc. is?
Apostrophe
Allusion
Alliteration
3
How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?
6
10
14
21
4
A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true is?
Paradox
Personification
Hyperbole
Allusion
5
Macbeth
was written to honor
Queen Elizabeth
.
True
False
6
'My genius is rebuked, as it is said/
Mark Antony's was by Caesar
."
Simile
Personification
Allusion
Apostrophe
7
"Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless" hint: This is when you address something absent
Allusion
Apostrophe
Personification
Simile
8
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
Paradox
Apostrophe
Allusion
Simile
9
"
That
which hath made them drunk made me bold."
Wine
Ambition
Pride
Fear
10
"Stars, hide your fires!"
Simile
Alliteration
Paradox
Personification
11
A speech spoken by a character as if he or she is
alone
is called?
An aside
A solioquy
A Monologue
12
Who was the best actor of Shakespeare's time?
Johnny Depp
Ben Jonson
The Rock
Ned Allyn
13
King Jacob
ruled England during the Jacobean period.
False
True
14
"There's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody."
Don't trust a smile of a near relative
People aren't what they seem, and we could be next
Looks can kill and create a bloody mess
A dagger behind a smile can result in death
15
"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."
Metaphor
Paradox
Allusion
Personification
16
When the speaker addresses some absent person or thing it is called?
A Paradox
Alliteration
Allusion
An Apostrophe
17
"
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
,/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage"
Metaphor
Simile
Allusion
Paradox
18
"Some say the earth was feverous and did shake."
Allusion
Paradox
Personification
Alliteration
19
Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities is called?
Personification
Apostrophe
Paradox
Allusion
20
"There's
h
usbandry in
h
eaven/Their candles are all out."
Personification
Simile
Apostrophe
Alliteration
21
"My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so
white
."
Guilty
Loyal
Brave
Cowardly
22
"Our country...
weeps, it bleeds
"
Metaphor
Alliteration
Paradox
Personification
23
What percent of people regularly attended plays during Shakespeare's time?
10%
20%
50%
90%
24
Who owned the right to the plays during Shakespeare's time?
Royalty
Play House
Acting Companies
Play writers
25
"Unsex me here and fill me from the toes to the top with direst cruelty."
Decide if I am male or female and then fill me with cruelty
Take away my desire for sex and fill me with cruel thoughts
Get rid of my female softness that might reside inside of me
Don't trust the smile of a near relative
26
"Look
like
the innocent flower."
Personification
Simile
Paradox
Allusion
27
Who was the best playwright of Shakespeare's day?
Richard Burbage
Christopher Marlowe
Ned Allyn
Ben Jonson
28
A comparison of one thing to another without using like or as is?
A Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
A Simile
29
Comparing two unlike things using like or as is?
A Simile
Allusion
A Metaphor
Hyperbole
30
"And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp."
Simile
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
31
"A little water clears us of the deed."
A baptism takes away all the guilt
Things will be better after a good rain
Water will cleanse the soul
Let's wash the blood and guilt from our hands
32
Shakespeare's first published volume was titled the
First Folio.
False
True
33
"But
wherefore
could I not pronounce 'amen'?"
Why
When
What
Where
34
"Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"
I am not prepared to be king
The task is too big for me to take
I have received the short end of the stick
I have been hailed with titles that don't belong to me
35
Which metrical foot were most of Shakespeare's plays written in?
Anapestic Pentameter
Dactylic Quatrain
Iambic Pentameter
36
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words is called?
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Allusion
Metaphor
37
Ben Jonson
is the main reason for the Shakespeare authorship controversy.
False
True
