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Shakespearen Lit
shakespeare lit. terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repitition of initial conosant sounds. Used to create melody,etablish mood,call attention to certain words |
| Allusion | Indirect refrence to a person,thing,event,situation, or aspect of culture real fictional,past or present. May drawform lit.,myth,history,or bible |
| Aside | remark spoken ina an undertone by one charachter either to the audience or to another character which remaining characters do not hear |
| Chorus | A single cahracter who recites the prologue |
| Couplet | ant two line stanza that contains a complete thought;couplets are usually rhymed |
| Foil | Character who provides a striking contrast to a main charcter, Thus calling attention to certain traits of the amin character |
| Foreshadowing | Technique of providing the reader point of view with hint,clues, or indications about future of a story or a play;FS prepares the reader for what is tocome and helps him/her to anticipate the outcome |
| Irony | In general,contrast between what appears to be what really is Verbal:person says one thing but means the opposite Situational:what happens in contray to what is expected to happen Dramatic:When the audience knows what will happen but a character doesnt |
| Metaphor | Implied comparison between two essentially unlike things withou using like or as |
| Oxymoron | Figure or speech that produces an efffect by seeming self-contradictory, as in "wise fool" "sad joy" |
| Personificatioon | Figure of speech in which human charateristics are assigned to nonhuman things,or life is attributed to inanimate objects |
| Prologue | Introdutory speech, often in verse, calling attention to the theme(s) of a play |
| Prose | ordinary form of spoken or written language which does not have a regular rhytmic pattern or meter |
| Pun | play on words based on similarity of sound between two words with diffrent meanings |
| Simile | Figure of speech in which two essentialy diffrent things are direactly compared, usaually with words like,or as |
| Soliloquy | A speech of a charcter delivered while the speaker is alone,inform the audience of what is passing in the character's mind or gives info concerning other participants in action which is essential for the audience to know |
| Sonnet | Lyric poem of 14 lines. The shakespearen sonnet contains 3 quatrains each with a rhyme of its ownand a rhymed couplet, |
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