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Shakespeare Terms
Literary terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prologue | a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot |
| Sonnet | fourteen- line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes |
| Dramatic Irony | The audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know |
| Monologue | a speech by one character in a play |
| Soliloquy | an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud |
| Foil | a character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way |
| Oxymoron | a combination of contradictory terms (Ex: jumbo shrimp) |
| Aside | words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character that is not supposed to be heard by others on stage. |
| Pun | a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike, but have a different meaning |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| Simile | When two unlike things are compared (ex: she is like a rose) |
| Foreshadowing | to give a slight hint on events later |
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