Poetry, Pentameter and Pirates (based on the Ted Ed video)

Poetry, Pentameter and Pirates (based on the Ted Ed video)

1st - 9th Grade

12 Qs

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Poetry, Pentameter and Pirates (based on the Ted Ed video)

Poetry, Pentameter and Pirates (based on the Ted Ed video)

Assessment

Quiz

English

1st - 9th Grade

Medium

Created by

David Robinson

Used 10+ times

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Shakespeare's characters often speak in iambic pentameter in time where they feel

any strong emotions

Tired

Shy

Sad

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the pattern of sounds in an iamb?

Stressed, unstressed

Unstressed, stressed

Stressed, stressed

unstressed, unstressed

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Iambic pentameter contains ___ feet each of which contains _____syllables.

2, 5

5,5

5,2

3,2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these is not a type of metrical feet or pattern?

Jiggly

Dactyl

Iamb

Trochee

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these lines is not in iambic pentameter?

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks.

I've got the eye of the tiger

Just a handful of silver he left us

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What word can be used to describe the rhythm or pattern of sounds in a poem?

Meter

Beats

Drums

Music

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which Shakespeare play uses these trochees in its first lines “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble”

Romeo and Juliet

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Hamlet

Macbeth

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