shakespear vocab Flashcards
Oxymoron
a combination of contradictory words (such as cruel kindness) broadly
Dramatic Irony
when the audience knows something that the characters don’t.
Foreshadowing
an indication of something that will happen in the future, often used as a literary device to hint at or allude to future plot developments
Sonnet
a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization
Soliloquy
the act of talking to oneself,
Allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
Rhyme Scheme
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
Author’s Purpose
Prologue
a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
