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