Shakespear Flashcards

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Ho

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Exclamation- doesn’t translate

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Maidenhead

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Virginity

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Woo

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To romance someone

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To bite one’s thumb at someone

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Insult

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Hate or goose

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Whore

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Shakespeare birth and death

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April 23

1564-1616

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Historical period in which he lived

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Elizebeathen era

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Theatre in which he co-owned

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The globe theatre

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Who plays the female roles

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The boys

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Name 3 plays he wrote

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Hamlet Macbeth night dream

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Prose

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Everyday verse

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Verse

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Poem

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Meter

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Regular rhythmic pattern in language

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Blank verse

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Verse that doesn’t rhyme

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Iamb

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Unstressed symbol
Stressed symbol
Unit of meter

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Stressed

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/

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Pentameter

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5 units of meter

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Couplet

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2 lines in a row that rhyme

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End-stopped lines

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Punctuation or pause at the end of a line

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Archaic

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Old or ancient