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Shakespeare Terms
Shakespeare Terms Study Stack
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aside | when a character speaks his/her thoughts aloud (not heard by other characters) |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| comedy | a dramatic work, usually light and humorous in tone& subject matter |
| convention | a familiar practice made common by frequent usage |
| dramatis personae | the list of characters in the play |
| monologue | when a character is speaking a major line to other characters |
| elision | a form in which 2 or 3 words are contracted when one word end w/a vowel & the next begins w/a vowel |
| enjambment | when the syntax of a line carries into the next lines of poetry |
| epilogue | in a dramatic works, a speech, usually offered in verse in which an actor addresses the end of the play |
| figurative language | language that uses all figures of speech especially metaphores |
| First Folio | the first anthology of Shakespeare works, 1623 |
| the forth wall | refers to the boundary b/t the world of the play and the world of the audience |
| heightened language | writing that is rich in imaginary and poetic forms and is often metrical |
| iamb | disyllabic metrical unit in which the first syllable in unstressed and the second is |
| iambic pentameter | a metrical line of 10 syllables comprising five metrical ft. of iambs |
| in medias res | literally "in the middle of things" |
| meter | the regular rhythm that is created when syllables are stressed & unstressed in a pattern |
| metaphor | a figure of speech, when two unlike things are compared or equated |
| pastoral | scenes or settings that take place in the country side |
| prologue | a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work |
| protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text |
| prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure |
| quarto | a size of book page resulting from folding each printed sheet into four leaves |
| scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm |
| simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid |
| stock character | archetypal characters distinguished by their flatness; as a result, they tend to be easy targets for parody and to be criticized as clichés |
| syncope | a literary device which can be defined as the contraction or the shortening of a word by omitting sounds, syllables or letters from the middle of the word |
| tragedy | an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. |
| verse | a particular type of metrical line: "a hexameter verse." |
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