Shakespeare Flashcards

(32 cards)

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What is Context

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  • Chronological Time (Time)
  • Physical Location (Where)
  • Societal attitudes of the time (Why)
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What is a literary movement

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A literary movement refers to a body of literary works composed during a set time period that share common features

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5 examples of movements in literature

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  • The Medieval Era
  • Jacobean Era
  • Elizabethan Era
  • Romantism
  • Post Modernism
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Metre

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The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables to create rhythm in a line

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Prose

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Speech used by the common people no metre or rhyme scheme

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Verse

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A set rhythm to a text

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Iambic Pentameter

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Verse rhythm, 10 syllables, alternating stress

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Blank Verse

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Poetry written in unrhymed by metered lines

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Introduction

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Established the main idea purpose and direction of what is to come

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Conclusion

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Reviews and synthesises the main ideas

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When the Tempest written and performed

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1611 during the Jacobean Era

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When did Shakespeare die

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23rd April 1616

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13
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What was the time period of the Elizabethan era

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1558-1603 (Shakespeare was 39 years old when it ended)

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14
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What is the Great Chain of Being

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A hierarchy of all living and non living things

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Theme

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Shaped and affected by the context in which a text was written

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Setting

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Used to establish tone, mood and atmosphere

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Context

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A means of understanding multiple interpretations/response to a text

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Comma splice

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The incorrect use of a comma to connect to independent clauses

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Fused Sentence

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Joining two independent clauses without any punctuation or conjunction

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Sentence Fragment

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A collection of words that is missing one or more components required to create a complete thought (often a subject or a verb)

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Themes in The Tempest

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Love
Conflict
Power and Freedom
Empathy and Forgiveness

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Metaphor

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A non-literal comparison of two things whereby one thing is said to be the other

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Exclamative

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A sentence which conveys a sense of surprise or another strong emotion, often but not always ending in an exclamation mark

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Imperative

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A sentence which conveys an instruction or a command, usually beginning with a verb

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Time period of the Jacobean Era
1603 - 1625
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King James
King James VI of Scotland becomes King James VI of Scotland and England
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All Characters (11)
Prospero (protagonist) Miranda Ariel Sycorax Caliban Duke Antonio King Alonso Ferdinand Stephano and Trinculo Gonzalo Sebastian
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Author and Texts from the time period
Shakespeare - Macbeth, The Tempest Ben Jonson - The Alchemist, Volpone
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Jacobean style of literature
Dark, Satire, Revenge, Tragedy, The Supernatural
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Age of Discovery in relevance to Shakespeare
Two years before the play was written a fleet of ships set sail for the new-found America. Called the Sea-venture. It was blown of course into rocks, everyone on board was presumed dead however a year later the lost crew from the ship made it to America
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how to literary movements arise
They are influenced by events/conflict of the time
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Age of Discovery
Also known as the Age of Exploration, overlapping with the Age of Sail, a period from approximately the 15th century to the 16th century, during which seafarers from a number of European countries explored, colonised, and conquered regions across the globe.