Shakespeare

Question 1

What are the King’s Men?

Answer 1

Shakespeare was a member of this play group

Question 2

What is Iambic Pentameter?

Answer 2

stressed syllable followed by unstressed syllables, each pattern is a foot (5 iambic feet)

Question 3

What was the Renaissance?

Answer 3

during the 16th century, was a rebirth of arts and sciences, emphasis on individual freedom of choice

Question 4

What is an aside?

Answer 4

speech on the audience hears during a play

Question 5

What are Groundlings?

Answer 5

poor people who stood or sat on the group at the Globe Theater, they enjoyed the puns, crude humor, and prose

Question 6

What are the Nobels?

Answer 6

wealthy people who sat in seats along the sides of the Glob Theater, enjoyed the flowery verse

Question 7

What is irony?

Answer 7

a literary device where there is a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality.

Question 8

What is verbal irony?

Answer 8

happens when a speaker says something but means the opposite.

Question 9

What is comedy?

Answer 9

refers to a genre of plays that are typically lighthearted, humorous, and end with a happy resolution

Question 10

What was the Elizabethan period?

Answer 10

days of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603), loved Theater, under her and King James, the Renaissance occured

Question 11

What do the different color flags mean in the Globe Theater?

Answer 11

Black- tragedy
White- comedy
Red- history