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Shakespeare Term
Term | Definition |
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aside | when a character speaks his or her thought aloud but is not heard by the other characters on stag |
blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
comedy | a dramatic work, usually light and humorous in tone and subject matter,often involving the triumph of character over adverse circumstances |
elision | a form in which two or three word are contracted when one word ends with a vowel and the next one begins one begins with vowle |
epilogue | in dramation word,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 of figures of speech,especially metaohors |
First Folio | the first anthology of shakespeare's works,put together and published by his friends in 1623,seven year after the end of the playwright died |
iamb | a disyllabic metrical unit in which the fist syllable is unstressed and the second stressed |
iamb pentameter | a metrical line of ten syllables comprising five metrical feet of iamb . Iambic pentameter is the most common meter in English poetry and drama and much of shakespeare's plays are written in it |
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 the purposes of description ,two unalike things are compared equated |
prologue | a speech at the beginning of the play that usually introduces the subject matter of the drama |
protagonist | the character who is of the 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 what we would consider "normal" speech |