Shakespeare Review

Question 1

How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 2

Language: Life's but a walking shadow/a poor player that struts & frets his hour upon the stage

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 3

Where is Shakespeare from?

Accepted Answer

Avon

Question 4

Which of the following is a theme of ALL Shakespearean sonnets?

Accepted Answer

Love

Question 5

In the first twelve lines of sonnets, Shakespeare ____, and in the last two lines, he ____.

Accepted Answer

sets up a problem, resolves the problem

Question 6

What is NOT true of Elizabethan theaters?

Accepted Answer

The actors practiced a lot.

Question 7

How much did it cost to get into the theater?

Accepted Answer

1 cent

Question 8

From what class was Shakespeare?

Accepted Answer

Middle

Question 9

When did Shakespeare die?

Accepted Answer

1616

Question 10

-Eth and -Est are sometimes at the ends of

Accepted Answer

Verbs

Question 11

Language: Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;/Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

Accepted Answer

rhyming

Question 12

Identify the language: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

Accepted Answer

idiom

Question 13

Art means

Accepted Answer

Are

Question 14

Which of the following means you?

Accepted Answer

Thou

Question 15

Give me leave to go to thy bathroom.

Accepted Answer

Allow me to go to your bathroom.

Question 16

Hurt me not means

Accepted Answer

Don't hurt me.

Question 17

Who attended plays?

Accepted Answer

Everyone

Question 18

Parting is such sweet sorrow/That I shall say good night till it be morrow. What is NOT used?

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 19

Identify language: Jealousy...is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock/The meat it feeds on.

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 20

What do we know about Shakespeare's father?

Accepted Answer

He lost a lot of the family money.

Question 21

When would a person in Shakespeare's time use thee, thou, thy, and thine?

Accepted Answer

When they talked to the queen

Question 22

Give me leave to means

Accepted Answer

Allow me to

Question 23

Alas means

Accepted Answer

Unfortunately

Question 24

Identify the language: It is the east and Juliet is the sun.

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 25

What is NOT a reason we study Shakespeare?

Accepted Answer

His SONNETS were new.

Question 26

Thou art a footlicker!

Accepted Answer

You are a poop!

Question 27

What was the name of Shakespeare's theater?

Accepted Answer

The Globe

Question 28

Put into modern English: Thou hast not the wit to argue with me.

Accepted Answer

You don't have the intelligence to argue with me.

Question 29

Identify the Language: The whining schoolboy...creeping like snail/Unwillingly to school.

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 30

What is the BEST way to describe the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?

Accepted Answer

three quatrains and a couplet

Question 31

Thou art a globbing, fat-kidneyed pignut! means

Accepted Answer

You are a big fat poop!

Question 32

What did the audience do when they didn't like the play?

Accepted Answer

Throw food at the actors

Question 33

What meter did Shakespeare use to write his poems and plays?

Accepted Answer

Iambic Pentameter

Question 34

In what year was Shakespeare born?

Accepted Answer

1564

Question 35

Adieu means

Accepted Answer

Goodbye

Question 36

Language: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings & arrows of outrageous fortune.

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 37

Identify the language: Hide thee, thou bloody hand.

Accepted Answer

idiom

Question 38

Would can also mean

Accepted Answer

Wish

Question 39

Ay means

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 40

Where did poor people watch plays?

Accepted Answer

On the ground in front of the stage

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