Language used in Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare's plays used a lot of iambic pentameter

• True

• False

Iambic Pentameter uses stressed and unstressed syllables

• True

• False

Shakespeare used iambic pentameter because

• It has an enjoyable rhythm

• It made it easier to write

• It closely resembles the rhythm of everyday speech

• It was the most popular way to write during that time

Iambic Pentameter can be identified by looking for

• Long sentences

• monologues and soliloquy

• A line of poetry consisting of 10 syllables following a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Prose can usually be identified because it looks like a block of text

• True

• False

Prose has

• No rhyme of metric scheme

• Lots of rhyme and metric scheme

• Somewhere in the middle

Prose sounds like everyday language, it has no musical qualities

• True

• False

Only Shakespeare's lower-class characters spoke in prose

• Mostly

• Yes

• No

Verse in Shakespeare's plays meant that

• The lines follow a specific pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that always rhymed

• The lines follow a specific pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that didn't necessarily rhyme

Shakespeare wrote in mostly blank verse

• True

• False