Shakespeare Vocabulary

Select the contraction:

• can't

• cannot

• will not

• could

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Select the contraction:

• sirrah

• stabbed

• stabb'd

• morrow

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

What does the contraction "ne'er" mean?

• Neither

• Never

• No one

• Near

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

What does the contraction "'Tis" mean?

• It is

• This

• That

• Stick

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What do the words "thee" and "thou" mean?

• My

• Your

• You

• I

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "thy" mean?

• Ours

• They

• You

• Your

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Select the sentence that has "thee" used correctly in it.

• What is thee name?

• Come, let me clutch thee.

• To thee own self be true.

• Thee art my brother.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Select the sentence that has "thy" used correctly in it.

• Not for thy fairy kingdom.

• Wherefore art thy Romeo?

• Thy art too full of the milk of human kindness

• To be or not to thy?

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "art" mean, when used as a verb in Elizabethan English?

• Heart

• Part

• Am

• Are

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Define "base," as used in Elizabethan English.

• Bottom or underneath

• Dishonorable, low, unworthy

• Basic

• Goal

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C