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Shakesphere Vocab pt 1 Flashcards

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1
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Inversions

A

Shakespeare often rearranges the word order to create new rhythms or to emphasize a particular word.

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Archaic Language

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Words that we think we know the meaning of actually have a different meaning

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Omission

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Shakespeare might omit a whole word or a part of a word to create rhymes.

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4
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Pertrarchan Love

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Love emphasizes the paralyzing defention of love

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5
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Classical Allusion

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an indirect reference to something from Greek/Roman mythology

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biblical Allusion

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an indirect reference to something from the Bible

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7
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Sonnet

A

14-line poem with a complex rhyme scheme

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Pun

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A “pun” is playing with the sound of words

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Paradox

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a seemingly absurd or self contradictory statement

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10
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Poetry

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Concentrated language

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Prose

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ordinary language used when speaking and writing

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12
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Metric writing/Meter

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regular rhythmic pattern in language

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Iambic Pentameter

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Way Shakespeare wrote

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Iamb

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Unit of speech that includes one unstressed symbol and one stressed symbol

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15
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What year was Shakespeare born

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1564

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16
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What year did shakesphere die

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1616

17
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Who did he marry?

A

Anne Hathaway

18
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What schooling did he receive?

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Educated in Rhetoric, logic, History, and Latin in middle school

19
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Where did he live?

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Stratgord-upon-Avon

20
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Who were his parents?

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John and Mary Arden

21
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What were the lost years?

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A time period where we have no records of Shakespeare living in London 1583-1592

22
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What was the name of the theatre that Shakespeare invested in?

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The Globe Theatre

23
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How many plays did he write?

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38

24
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How many sonnets?

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154

25
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What language did Shakespeare speak?

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Early Modern English

26
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Inversion

A

When the verb procedes the subject

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