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Shakespeare Vocab
From "A Glossary for Shakespeare Studies"
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aside | when a character talks to themself |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic penameter |
| comedy | a dramatic work that is funny and usually ends with everyone alive |
| convention | something that's made popular from frequent use |
| dramatis personae | the cast |
| elision | when 2 words combine to make words like the and express to th'express |
| enjambment | when a syntax line carries to the next line |
| epilogue | a character addresses |
| figurative language | language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors. |
| First Folio | the collection of all of shakespeare's plays |
| the 4th wall | the imagiinary wall bte the stage and the crowd |
| heightened language | formal speaking |
| iamb | a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter |
| iambic pemtameter | The iambic pentameter is defined by its rhythm of pairing ten syllables for each line into five pairs |
| in medias res | in the middle |
| meter | a measuring beat for poetry |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| pastoral | country-like |
| prologue | a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel. |
| protagonist | the main character in the piece of literature that they appear in |
| prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse. |
| quarto | a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches |
| scansion | the metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are ˘ for a short or unaccented syllable, ¯ or · for a long or accented syllable, ^ for a rest, | for a foot division, and ‖ for a caesura or pause. |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared |
| soliloquy | an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present |
| stock character | a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer. |
| syncope | the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er |
| tragedy | the tragic or mournful or calamitous element of drama, of literature generally, or of life. |
| verse | a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem. |
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