Twelfth Night Test Flashcards
How should titles of plays be formatted when typing?
Use italics for the titles: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
How can you recognize blank verse?
Each line starts with a capital letter, and it is unrhymed iambic pentameter. Divide the lines with slashes when quoting.
Example: “And these same thoughts people this little world,/ In humours like the people of this world” (5.1.9-10).
How can you recognize prose?
In prose, every sentence begins with a capital letter, but not every line on the page. No slashes are necessary when quoting.
Example: “I will Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream. It shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream,’ because it hath no bottom” (4.1.214-16).
What should parenthetical references include?
References should refer to act, scene, and line numbers, not page numbers. Place them at the end of the sentence before the period.
Example: (1.1.12-23) or (1.1.12, 23).
How should block quotations for 4 or more lines be formatted?
Indent the quotation and arrange the lines as they appear in the text. Avoid quoting this much unless prepared to develop multiple analytical points.
Example: “How sour sweet music is… I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” (5.5.41-49)
What is prose?
The ordinary form of written or spoken language
Prose does not have a metrical structure and follows the rules of grammar.
What is verse?
Another word for poetry
Verse typically has a rhythmic structure.
What is meter in poetry?
A recognizable rhythm in a line of verse consisting of a pattern of regularly recurring unstressed and stressed syllables.
What can we infer if a character’s lines are written in prose?
The character is most likely from the lower class and not very wealthy
Additionally, the character may be uneducated.
What can we infer if a character’s lines are written in verse?
The character is most likely from the upper class and/or nobility and very wealthy
Furthermore, the character is likely formally educated and may be experiencing strong emotions.
How can you identify prose in a text?
Lines look like a regular paragraph.
How can you identify verse in a text?
Every line begins with a capital letter and the lines are all different lengths on the page.
What rhythm does Shakespeare commonly use?
Iambic Pentameter.
Fill in the blank: Duke Orsino, who is in love with Lady Olivia, always speaks in _______.
Verse.
What is iambic pentameter?
The main rhythmic structure of Shakespeare’s verse, consisting of 10 syllables divided into five feet
Each foot contains two syllables with an unstressed-stressed rhythm.
