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Shakespeare
Term | Definition |
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Aside | - when a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud but is not heard by other characters on stage |
Blank Verse | - unrhymed iambic pentameter |
Comedy | a dramatic work, usually light and humorous in tone and subject matter, often involving triumph of characters over adverse circumstances |
Elision | - a from in which two or three words are contacted when one word ends with a vowel and the next word begins with a vowel |
Epilogue | - in dramatic words, a speech, usually offered in verse, in which an actor addresses the audience at the end of the play |
Figurative Language | - language that makes use figures of speech, especially metaphors |
First Folio | - the first anthology of Shakespeare's works, put together and published by his friends in 1623, seven years after the playwright died |
Iamb | - is a metrical unit made up of two syllables, the first unstressed, the second stressed. |
Iambic pentameter | - has (5 feet)(2 syllables) = 10 syllables |
Meter | - the regular rhythm that is created when syllables are stressed and unstressed in a systematic pattern |
Metaphor | - a figure of speech, in which for purposes of description, two unalike things are compared or equated |
Prologue | - a speech at the beginning of the play that usually introduces the subject matter of the drama |
Protagonist | - the character who is leading importance in a drama or narrative |
Prose | - language that is not written in meter and which is much more irregular in its rhythms than verse. Prose tends to be akin to what we would consider "normal" speech |
Scansion | - the analysis of the line of verse in metrical terms |
Simile | - the figurative of speech in which alike things are compared and connected by "like" or "as" |
Soliloquy | - a dramatic monologue that often seems to express the internal, even secret workings of a character's mind |
Syncope | - the contraction of a single word (over becomes "o'er) |
Tragedy | - a serious dramatic work in which a protagonist is troubled by some terrible conflict that results in dire events |
Verse | - used to describe lines written in metrical form, sometimes used to simply to denote a piece of poetry |