Shakespear

Question 1

Prose

Answer 1

language form in which we speak and that in most literature is written

Question 2

Poetry

Answer 2

rhythmic compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery

Question 3

Lyric poetry

Answer 3

Aimed only at expressing the speakers emotions or thoughts

Question 4

Narrative poetry

Answer 4

Tells a story

Question 5

Iambic meter

Answer 5

A rhythmical pattern that follows the sequence: unstressed syllable, stressed syllable u/u/u/

Question 6

Iambic foot

Answer 6

One set of syllables- unstressed/stressed u/

Question 7

Iambic pentameter

Answer 7

Unrhymed pentameter. This is the language common in English epic and dramatic poetry as well as in Shakespearean drama.

Question 8

Rhyme scheme

Answer 8

A pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza. Rhyme schemes are usually marked by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each similar end-sound in the stanza

Question 9

Sonnet

Answer 9

A poem of fourteen lines in one of several lime schemes. Shakespearean sonnets are divided into three quatrains and a concluding rhymed couplet

Question 10

Pun

Answer 10

Word play; words offer more than one meaning; not always funny

Question 11

Personification

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Giving an animal or inanimate object/ non-living animal with one or more human characteristics

Question 12

Metaphor

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Comparison in which one thing is said to be another

Question 13

Simile

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Comparison in which one thing is said to like or as another

Question 14

Oxymoron

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Contrasting statements
-pretty ugly

Question 15

Soliloquy

Answer 15

A speech in which a character, alone on stage expresses his thoughts/ feelings to the audience. A character cannot lie to you during a soliloquy

Question 16

Aside

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A remark made to the audience, unheard by the other characters

Question 17

Tragedy

Answer 17

A literary work that results in a catastrophe for the main character(s). The tragic is the result of a flaw or weakness in the persons character