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Final: Shake terms Flashcards

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River running through London

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Thames (tems)

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Shakespeare’s most Widely taught plays

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Romeo and Juliet

Julius Caesar

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Two comedies

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A midsummer nights dream

The merchant of Venice

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Two histories

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Henry V

King John

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Aside

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a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.

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Soliloquy

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Long speech
Usually alone
Reveals characters thoughts

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Sonnet

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14 line poem written by Shakespeare

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Couplet

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Last Two lines of a sonnet

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Quatrain

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Four lines of a sonnet

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Exposition

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Setting up of the story, background info

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Rising action

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Leading up to the climax

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Crisis/turning point

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Climax

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Falling action

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On the way back down

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Denouement

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Settling of the plot, the end

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History

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Often set in the past

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Comedy

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Intended to make the audience laugh

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Tragedy

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Intended to make the audience sad

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18
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Blank verse

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Verse without rhyme, usually uses iambic pentameter

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Iambic pentameter

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5 iambs, meter that Shakespeare wrote in

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Rhythm

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Alternating stress and spun stressed syllables, no specific order necessary

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Meter

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A pattern of rhythm, a pattern

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Simile

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A comparison using like or as

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Personification

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Giving something personal traits and characteristics when they are not alive

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Metaphor

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A comparison that doesn’t use like or as

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Figurative language

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Similes, metaphors, hyperboles, a type of language using figures of speech

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Implied metaphor

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A type of metaphor that compares two unlike things but does so without saying one of them

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Enjambment

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When a line of poetry continues directly into the next line

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Bard

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A poet

29
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Elizabethan age

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Time during Shakespeare’s life when queen Elizabeth ruled

30
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Famous theater

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The globe

31
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Home town

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Stratford on Avon

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Wife

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Anne Hathaway

33
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How should we write plays?

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Italicized

34
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Ben Jonson said…

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Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time

35
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Monarchs during the time

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Elizabeth I

James I

36
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Theatre groups

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Kings men

Lord chamberlains men

37
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Possible author of Shakespeare’s plays?

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Edward DeVere

38
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Oxfordians

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Believe that the plays attributed to William Shakespeare are actually written by Edward DeVere

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Stratfordians

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Believe that William Shakespeare wrote the plays

40
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First Folio

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Published collection of William Shakespeare’s plays from 1623

41
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Penny Gnaves and groundlings

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Poor people, loved plays, payed one penny to stand on the ground to watch the plays

42
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Four great tragedies

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Han,et
Macbeth
King Lear
Othello
Julia Ceasar
43
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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

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Marcellus

44
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“Frailty, thy name is woman”

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Hamlet

45
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“A little more than kin and less than kind”

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Hamlet

46
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“O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt”

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Hamlet

47
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“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”

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Polonius

48
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“This above all; thine own self be true”

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Polonius

49
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”

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Hamlet

50
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“The plays the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King”

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Hamlet

51
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“What a piece of work is man”

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Hamlet

52
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“Words, words, words”

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Hamlet

53
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“More matter, with less art”

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Gertrude

54
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Get thee to a nunnery

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Hamlet to Ophelia

55
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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go

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Claudius

56
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Hoist with his own petard

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Hamlet

57
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I must be cruel only to be kind

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Hamlet

58
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To be, or not to be? That is the question

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Hamlet

59
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The lady protests too much, methinks

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Gertrude

60
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action

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Hamlet

61
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Ay, there’s the rub

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Hamlet

62
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Not so my lord. I am too much i’ the sun

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Hamlet

63
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Brevity is the soul of wit

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Polonious

64
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Sweets to the sweet. Farewell!

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Gertrude

65
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Alas, poor yorick

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Hamlet

66
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Good night, sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

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Horatio

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