Literature Shakespeare overview quiz - WJEC GCSE English Literature quiz

Only the famous scenes

The whole play, studied in full

Only the printed extract

Only the first act

A single scene

The whole play, often opening from a printed extract

A poem

Two plays

Retelling the plot accurately

Analysing dramatic methods and reaching the effect on the audience

Listing the characters

Summarising each act

A speech by two characters

A speech a character delivers alone, voicing private thoughts the audience hears

A stage direction

A rhyming couplet

A scene change only

A loss of control, status or order

The end of the play

A comic interlude always

A funny moment

The audience knowing a character's true mind while others on stage do not

A type of rhyme

A stage prop

One image in isolation

Trace the motif across the whole play, showing development

Count the images

Ignore it

Because they are villains

Because Shakespeare builds them through dramatic methods, so you analyse how they are presented

Because they are real people

Because they never change

List where it appears

Trace its development across the play and argue what Shakespeare suggests

Mention it once

Avoid quotations

When it is a long paragraph of dates

When it is embedded as a clause explaining how a moment would strike the original audience

When it has no link to the play

When it replaces the analysis

The price of theatre tickets today

Beliefs about order and kingship, the supernatural, or attitudes to gender

Modern film adaptations

The play's page count

Ignore it

Analyse it closely first, then use it as a springboard to the whole play

Copy it out

Summarise the scene

A scene-by-scene retelling

Paragraphs organised by interpretations, each proved by method, quotation and effect

A list of characters

A summary of the ending

They are longer

Short, versatile lines can answer several possible questions, covering more ground

They avoid analysis

Markers require them