Shakespeare Study Guide

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Across
  1. 4. Shakespearean sonnets consists of 3 (________) lined stanzas
  2. 5. Where did Shakespeare move in order to earn a living as a poet.
  3. 7. Sonnets end with a final rhymed (__________)
  4. 8. Shift in tone in a sonnet
  5. 9. First name of the woman he married.
  6. 12. The most significant invention during the Elizabethan Era.
  7. 13. A sonnet is a (_________) form consisting of 14 lines
  8. 16. Published Shakespeare's sonnets in 1609
  9. 17. Second quatrain rhyme scheme
  10. 19. Sonnet is derived from this Italian word
  11. 21. Where was Shakespeare born?
  12. 22. First quatrain rhyme scheme
  13. 23. (___________) pentameter: every line has 10 syllables
  14. 24. Final couplet rhyme scheme
Down
  1. 1. When did English sonnets start?
  2. 2. Most famous theatre during the Elizabethan era.
  3. 3. Each grouping of four line is known as a
  4. 6. Shakespeare wrote 154 of these
  5. 10. Iambs have pairs of (________) and unstressed syllables
  6. 11. Unexplained events were blamed on who?
  7. 13. Shakespeare's sonnets were fairly (____________)
  8. 14. Third quatrain rhyme scheme
  9. 15. One of Shakespeare's twins names.
  10. 18. The Elizabethan period was the age of what?
  11. 20. The first 17 of Shakespeare's sonnets were addressed to who?
  12. 21. English sonnets are known as