Shakespeare Test Review

Directions: With your group, fill in the questions below. If you have the answers listed in
your notes, rip out your notes and attach to this sheet.

1. What do the following words mean?:

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Sonnet: Couplet:

narrative: stanza:

personification: iambic pentameter:

2. Where was Shakespeare born? Where did he die?

3. What are the three different types of works that Shakespeare did?

4. What was the name of Shakespeareʼs theatre?

5. What was the name of Shakespeareʼs players?

6. What type of play (from what you answered in # 3) is:

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Romeo and Juliette: Hamlet:

Twelfth Night: MacBeth:

7. Explain the sonnet:

How many syllables?: How many verses?:

How many syllables per line?:

8. What is this an example of?: (Peter picked pickles.)

9. What is this an example of?: (Tonight is the night I will eat a steak.)