Unit II Summative Assessment

Friar Laurence and Juliet devise a plan to fake Juliet's death. How was Romeo to learn of this plan?

Shakespeare's theater was called The Globe.

Four line stanza with alternating rhyme?

In Shakespeare's time, the parts of girls and women in plays were played by young boys.

Shakespeare decorated his stage with elaborate and expensive decor.

Shakespeare's sonnets are identified by:

Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616.

Every line in Shakespeare's sonnets contains:

The people who, for a penny, stood shoulder to shoulder around the stage during his plays were called "penny people".

In all, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays.

Shakespeare is buried in Stratford, England, and the stone over his grave is carved with his own words.

The prologue to Romeo & Juliet is written in what form?

In Shakespeare's day, the best time to watch one of his plays at his theater was at sunset.

Shakespeare did not act. He only wrote plays and sonnets.

Shakespeare's sonnets were written predominantly in a meter called:

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (Act 2, scene 2).

"Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell; There stays a husband to make you a wife" (Act 2, scene 5).

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet" (Act 2, scene 2).

Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called:

EVERY sonnet by Shakespeare contains:

What literary technique is Shakespeare using in this line: "never-resting time leads summer on"?

"A plague o'both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me!" (Act 3, scene 1)

What is a couplet?

An iamb is best described as:

Identify the rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnets.

The last two lines of all of Shakespeare's sonnets are written in what form?

Romeo thinks Juliet is dead when we know that she is not. What is this an example of?