Shakespeare Flashcards
0
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soliloquy
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speech by one character to himself
1
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aside
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a remark by a character that is only heard by the audience
2
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monologue
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speech given by one person
3
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sonnent
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poem with 14 lines
4
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couplet
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ending two lines in a sonnent
5
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exposition
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beginning of the play
6
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rising action
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series of inccidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interset
7
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crisis/turning point
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climax
8
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falling action
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after the climax
9
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denouement
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end of the story
10
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history
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KIng Reichard 3 and KIng Henry 4
11
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comedy
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Midsummer’s Night Dream and The Taming of the Shrew
12
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tragedy
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Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear
13
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blank verse
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an unrhming iambic pentameter
14
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quatrain
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four lines in a sonnent
