Shakespearean Literary Terms

What do we call two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme?

• Couplet

• Sonnet

• Quatrain

• Iamb

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What do we call a stanza with six lines?

• sestet

• couplet

• quatrain

• octave

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

How many quatrains are in one Shakespearean Sonnet?

• two

• four

• three

• one

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CCSS.RL.7.4

How many syllables are in one iamb?

• two

• four

• ten

• five

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CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What do we call a play on the multiple meanings of a word?

• pun

• iamb

• oxymoron

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.8.5A

A blank poem has no rhyme scheme but does follow a meter.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

One of the most common rhyme schemes for the second stanza in a Petrarchan Sonnet is CDECDE.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Select ALL of the correct answers.

Why did Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter?

• It was the only form of meter at the time

• It was easier for actors to memorize

• It followed the natural rhythm of your heart

• It worked well with English spoken word.

A speech that is said by someone and MEANT to be heard is a..

• monologue

• soliloquy

• prose

• prologue

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

“O loving hate, / O anything, of nothing first created! / O heavy lightness, serious vanity” This quote

shows examples of what? Pay attention to the bolded phrases.

• puns

• anachronisms

• oxymorons

• foils

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10