Shakespeare and Sonnets Test Review

What is a tragedy?

What was the name of the theater?

What year was Shakespeare born?

What is a tempest?

The Renaissance was a period of what?

What does this line from sonnet 116 mean?

Young men played women's roles in the theater.

Where was the birthplace of the Renaissance?

An iamb and iambic foot are the same thing.

Where was Shakespeare born?

What is blank verse?

Which is a rumored way of how Shakespeare died?

In sonnet 130, Shakespeare's description of his mistress idealistic.

When did Shakespeare die?

A pun is

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.

How many syllables are in an iambic foot?

Shakespeare's target audience was only the lower class.

Who had built the first playhouse

The theater was the popular hangout spot during Shakespeare's time.

The turning point of the sonnet is called the what?

What were groundlings?

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays spanning over 3 different genres.

What changes the speakers mood in sonnet 29?

Where did Shakespeare move to begin his acting career?

Iambic Pentameter sounds like a what?

What is the tone in Shakespeare's sonnet 130?

What was the first acting company Shakespeare joined?

What does the word "impediments" mean?

What pattern does the Rhyme scheme follow?

King James did NOT support the arts.

What does Shakespeare negatively compare the woman's eyes to in sonnet 130?

What is an enjambment?

What was the disease killing everyone at this time?

A sonnet has 14 lines with 3 couplets and 1 quatrain.

What was the name of Shakespeare's wife?

The genre of a play that ends happily is a...?

A stanza that has 2 lines in it is called a what?

What lines in a sonnet resolve the problem?

Sonnet 130 is mostly making fun of others sonnet writers for the way they write about women.

What did Shakespeare change the name of the acting company to?

Shakespeare was married at the age of

Which lines in a sonnet set up the problem or theme?

Elizabeth I supported the arts.