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shakespeare vocabu
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aliteration | the repition of initial consonant sounds;is used to create melody, est. mood and call atention to certain words |
| allusion | an indirect reference to a person, thing event situation, or aspect of culture real or fitional, past or presnet |
| aside | a remark spoken in an undertone by one character either to the audience or to another character |
| chorus | a single actor who recites the prologue |
| couplet | any two lines stanza that contains a complete thought; couplets are usally rhymed |
| foil | a character who provides a stricking contrast to a main character, thus calling attenntion to certain traits of the main character |
| foreshadowing | a technique of providing the reader or viewer with hints, clues, or indication about the futureaction of thge story or play |
| irony | in general, a contrast between what appears to be and what it really is |
| metaphor | an implied comparison between two essentially inlike things without using like or as |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech that produces an effect by seeming self-contaditory, as in "wise fool" |
| personofication | a figure of speech in which human charcteristics are assigned to nonhuman things, or life attributed to inanmate objects |
| prologue | an intor speech, often in verse, calling attenition to the theme |
| prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language which does not have redular rhythmic pattern or meter |
| pun | a play on words based on similaritys of sounds between two words with different meanings |
| simile | a figiure of speech int which two essentially differnt things are directly compared , usally with the words like or as |
| solilogy | a speech of a character in a play delivered while the peaker is alone that informs the audience of wht is passing in the characeter's mind or gives info concerning other participants in the action which is esstenial for the audience to know |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines. the shakespearan sonnet contains three quatrain each with a rhyme of its own and a rhymed couplet |
| tragedy | a dramatic compostion dealing with a serious or somber theme, tempically that of a noble peron whoses character is flawed by a single weakness such as pride |
| tragic flaw | a flaw in a charcterthat brings about the downfall of the hero of the tragity |
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