Glossary The Taming Of The Shrew

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech in which a thing, a place, an abstract quality, an idea, or a dead or absent person, is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. O Time, thou must entangle this, not I. it is too hard a knot for me t’untie.”

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Anachronism

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The placing of an event or person or thing out of its actual age

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Aside

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Words spoken confidentially to the audience by an actor

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Blocking

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Determining the physical locations and movements of actors in preparation for a play’s performance

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Comedy

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A work chiefly intended to amuse the audience

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What do romantic comedies deal with?

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Romantic comedies such as the taming of the shrew deal in a light-hearted way with the problems and misunderstandings of young lovers but have a happy ending through the marriages of these lovers. The happy ending is also suggestive of the renewal of society at large

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The convention a Shakespearean romantic comedy are as follows

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A- the main plot revolves around love
B-obstacles to love must be overcome
C-the story ends in harmonious union
D- disguise and mistaken identity are aspects of plot

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Dramatic irony

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Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows information that the characters do not

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Foil

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Any person who through strong contrast, underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of an another

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Imagery

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Language in a work of literature that appeals to the senses, suggesting what to think and feel. imagery is all the images, or word pictures, in a work

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Malapropism

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A Comic misuse of words. (in act one, scene two, Grumio says rebused when he means to say abused

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which unlike things are compared with striking Effect. for example Katherine is likened to a falcon in the text and Petruccio must tame her the way one would tame a falcon.

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poetry

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In Shakespeare’s plays most scenes are written in iambic pentameter, that is a series of 5 foot lines in which each foot as one lightly and one heavily accented syllable (relatively speaking).

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prose

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In Shakespeare’s plays the lower-class characters often speak in prose which is closer to natural speech pattern than is iambic pentameter

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Protagonist

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The hero in a tragedy or the central character in any drama

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Pun

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A play on words based on similarity in sound and difference in meaning

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Soliloquy

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A dramatic speech spoken by a character alone on the stage. In the soliloquy the character reveals thoughts and feels to the audience, giving them information about his or her motives, intentions and state of mind.

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Wit

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The Association of apparently unrelated idea, in an unexpected, Clever way, especially with an effect of brilliance in provoking laughter