Iambic pentameter and modern rap lyrics may seem to exist in parallel universes, but they are joined by the same rhythmic soul and street-level grit. You need a sharp ear for wordplay and flow to play this Shakespeare Or Hip Hop Quiz. Prove you can distinguish a sonnet of the sixteenth century from a verse of today.
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Shakespeare Or Hip Hop Quiz Questions
- I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
- Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
- I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
- Of one that loved not wisely but too well.
- Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
- I must be cruel, only to be kind.
- He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
- We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
- Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
- There is no darkness but ignorance.
- The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
- Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
- I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.
- I came from dust and shadows, now my footsteps shake the ground.
- Gold on my neck, but the weight of it drag my spirit low.
- I wrestle with my demons till they bow and kiss my feet.
- Every scar upon my body is a verse the world can read.
- I turned my hunger into thunder and it shook the gates of sleep.
- If I should fall, let my name ride on the echo of the drums.
- I walk a road of fire with a heart too cold to melt.
- My sins sit on my shoulders like a crown of crooked thorns.
- I made a throne from the ruins of the man I used to be.
- They traded truth for silver; I kept silence like a blade.
- The night knows all my secrets and it guards them with its teeth.
- I broke the chains they gave me and I wear them now as gold.
- I speak in stormy parables and let the thunder be my proof.
- I sowed my pain in silence; now the harvest sings my name.
- I gave my heart to the struggle and it paid me back in scars.