Revision Elizabethan Period / Shakespeare

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Elizabethan Period & Shakespeare

1. Who is this?

1. Queen Mary I Nickname: Bloody Mary
2. Queen Elizabeth I Nickname: Virgin Queen
3. King Henry VIII
4. Queen Elizabeth II

2. Plays were usually performed ____

1. during the day
2. during the night

3. Women were not allowed to perform in a play.

1. True
2. False

4. Theatre nowadays is different from Shakespeare's time. In Shakespeare's time ____________

1. Tickets were more expensive .
2. There was more interaction between the public and the actors
3. Performances took place at night to create more suspense.

5. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. What is the main topic of a sonnet?

1. guilt
2. revenge
3. love
4. nature

6. Shakespeare often used iambic pentameter (a type of metre - rhythm). What is iambic pentameter?

1. five sets of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
2. five sets of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
3. six sets of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
4. six sets of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

7. Identify the stylistic device. "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

1. simile
2. metaphor for death
3. repetition
4. metaphor for the sun

8. Identify the stylistic device. "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade"

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification
4. repetition

9. Identify the stylistic device. "But thy eternal summer shall not fade"

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification

10. Identify the stylistic device.
"So long as men can breathe and eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee"

1. repetition
2. simile
3. metaphor
4. personification

11. What is a quatrain?

1. a stanza of two lines
2. a stanza of four lines
3. a stanza of six lines
4. a stanza of eight lines

12. What is a couplet?

1. a stanza of two lines
2. a stanza of four lines
3. a stanza of six lines
4. a stanza of eight lines

13. What is the writer's main point in the couplet of sonnet 18?

1. the speaker explains that his beloved has died and he will never overcome his grief
2. the speaker explains that the love he feels for his beloved is like a disease
3. the speaker explains that the beloved's beauty is preserved in this poem and will last forever
4. the speaker explains that his beloved is beautiful, but not as beautiful as other women

14. What is the typical language used in Petrarchan sonnets?

1. the description of the beloved as a goddess, using over the top comparisons
2. the description of the beloved as an ordinary girl, using few adjectives