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Iambic
Type of foot: unstressed, stressed
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Trochaic
Type of foot: Stressed, unstressed
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Anapestic
Type of foot: Unstressed, unstressed, stressed
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Dactylic
Type of foot: Stressed, unstressed, unstressed
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Italian sonnet
- 14 lines
- abba abba,cdecde/cdccdc
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Shakespearen Sonnet
- 14 lines
- 3 quatrains ending in gg couplet
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Allusion
Refercence to another story
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Classical allusion
Classical stories, bible, greek mythology
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Verbal type of irony
Words are used to convey something opposite of the literal meaning
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Types of irony
1.Verbal
2. Dramatic Irony
3. Situational
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Dramatic type of irony
Something known by the reader, but not the characters.
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Situational type of irony
An event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader or the audience.
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Shakespeare was born in
Stradaford apon Avon
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The ruler when Shakespeare started writing
Queen Elizabeth
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The ruler when Shakespeare stopped writing
King James
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Shakespeare wrote
Comedies, tradegies and histories
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Benvoilo is
Romeo's cousin
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Tybalt is
A kinsmen of Juliet
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Mercutio is
Related to the prince, and a friend of Romeo
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Tybalt sent a letter to Romeo
To challenge him
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Mercutio said
"A plague a' both your houses"
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Who explains Tybalt's murder to the Prince?
Benvolio
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Refrain
A repeated set of lines
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Symbolism
Something that has a literal, implied and emotional deeper meaning
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Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Paradox
Real and not real
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Theme
Bigger overarching ideas in a literary work
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Motif
A recurring subject, theme, idea, etc. Especially in a literary artistic or musical work
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Free verse
A poem with no meter or rhyme
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Point of View
- First person
- Third Person objective
- Third person limited
- Third person omniscient
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First person
Narrative by a person in a story. Only their own opinion/thoughts and feelings
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Third person objective
Narritive is outsider, can't go into thoughts.
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Third person limited
Outsider who can go into the thoughts of one person
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Third person omniscient
Outsider who can go into anyone's mind
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Internal rhyme
Rhyme within the same line.
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Slant/close/near rhyme
Imperfect rhyme, share either some vowel/consonant sound, but not both
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Rhyme sceme
Pattern of rhyme
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Ballad
Story told in verse, usually meant to be sung
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Narrative
poem tells a story
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Epic
Long narrative that relates to the deeds of a hero
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Lyric
Short poem, first person, expresses emotion.idea/describes a scene. Doesn't tell a story.
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Meter
Pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
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Symbols for stressed and unstressed
/ (stressed) U (unstressed)
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Foot
Unit of meter. (2 or 3 syllables) usually one stressed adn at least one unstressed syllables.
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