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Shakespeare Terms
ASIDE
• A short comment by an actor that is meant for the audience to hear, but is not heard by the other characters on the stage.
TRAGEDY
• A form of drama that deals with serious questions about life and often ends unhappily.
• Shakespeare’s plays are divided into four categories: Tragedies, Comedies, Histories, and the Problem Plays.
FOIL
• A minor character who is used by the author to amplify qualities of a main character through comparison or contrast.
• Ex. Ned Flanders to Homer Simpson.
IAMBIC PENTAMETER
• Writing that follows an unstressed stressed foot syllable pattern, with five feet (10 syllables) per line.
• If mu- / -sic be / the food / of love, / play on• Is this / a dag- / -ger I / see be- / fore me?
PUN
• The use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound for humorous effect.
• E.G. I’m so ‘punny’….
WORDPLAY
• Humor that depends on knowing multiple meanings of words (closely related to pun).
• E.G. Civil blood makes civil hands unclean / You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead.
DRAMATIC IRONY
• The reader or viewer knows something that a character does not
• E.G. Romeo and Juliet meet not knowing that they are enemies, but WE know!
SITUATIONAL IRONY
• When an outcome is different than what is expected.
• E.G. Damien’s stress-relief candles were the cause of his apartment burning down.
VERBAL IRONY
• When what is said is not what is meant (related to sarcasm, but could be more subtle).
• E.G. Saying “Great!” when something bad happened.
Oxymoron• Oxymoron - two contradictory terms are placed side
by side, usually for an effect of intensity:• Jumbo shrimp• burning ice
Soliloquy/ Monologue
• A long speech delivered by a single actor.
Journal #1
• Do you believe in love at first sight?• Give reasons and examples to
support your belief. • Go home tonight and ask your
parents and/or grandparents how they met/fell in love.
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