3rd Flashcards
relates through emotions and behaviors/uses rhyming meter patterns
Dramatic poetry
3 forms of dramtic poetry
soliloquy
dramatic monologue
character sketch
a character speaking to himself (hamlet’s “to be? or not to be?”)
soliloquy
talking to someone else
dramatic monologue
makes the audience feel something for the character
character sketch
- 14 lines w/ 4 sections (quatrains)
- strict rhyme scheme
- iambic pentameter (10 syllables)
sonnet
features of a sonnet
- 14 lines w/ 4 sections (quatrains)
- strict rhyme scheme
- iambic pentameter (10 syllables)
known for making 154 sonnets (most popular: Sonnet 18)
William Shakespeare
how to analyze a dramatic monologue
form - (strict or loose, 1st person pov, has a defined audience in mind)
revelation - advances the plot
climax - towards the end, built up in the preceding parts
character
verb in form but not in function
verbals
the three verbals
gerunds
participle
infinitives
functions as a noun (present form)
gerunds
functions as an adjective
participle
functions as a noun, adj or adv (preceded by with~ or to~)
infinitives
gerund that uses 2 commas with an additional desc
appositive