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Shakespeare Lit Term
Term | Definition |
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Drama | A story written to be acted for an audience |
Tragedy | A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end |
Prologue | A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot |
Chorus | A group who says things at the same time |
Static Character | Character who does not change much in the course of a story |
Dynamic Character | Character who changes as a result of the story’s events |
Aside | Words spoken by a character in a play, usually in an undertone and not intended to be heard |
Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
iambic meter | Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
ambic Pentameter | Five verse feet with each foot an iamb (a total of 10 syllables) |
Pun | The humorous use of word or phase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time |
Monologue | A long, uninterrupted speech presented in front of other characters |
Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory terms |
Soliloqu | A speech in which a character in alone on stage and expresses thoughts out loud |
Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes |