Quiz: Shakespeare's Language
- quarto
- folio
- Percentage of people who could sign their own names
in Shakespeare's time
- three ways that vocabulary has changed since Shakespeare's
time
- Difference between "thee/ thou" and "you"
- sententiae
- Master of Revels
- Emblem
- Blank verse
- Iambic pentameter
- Shakespearean characters who generally speak in
prose
- Shakespearean characters who generally speak in
verse
- modulation
- endstopping
- enjambment
- caesura
- Two uses for rhymed couplets in Shakespeare
- rhetorical figures
- alliteration
- anaphora
- Parallel or doubling figures:
- tricolon
- antithesis
- hendiadys
- apostrophe
- Rhetorical tropes
- metaphor
- allegory
- hyperbole
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