Shakespeare Vocab 9

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English 9H - Shakespeare Vocabulary

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Aside

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• A dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience and the audience realizes that what is revealed to them is NOT revealed to other characters. It may be spoken directly to the audience

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Bard

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A poet especially a lyric poet; Shakespeare referred to as the Bard

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Blank Verse -

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• Verse without rhyme especially that which uses iambic pentameter

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Chorus -

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An actor or actors in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action.

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Comedy -

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A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the conflict; hero of story attains the desired goal.

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Comic Relief

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Humorous scene dialogue or speech in a play that provides relief during emotional parts.

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Contracted words -

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Words in which a letter has been left out.

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Deception -

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A trick; in Shakespearean plays a character is usually intentionally deceived for a specific purpose.

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Double entendre -

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A phrase or figure of speech that could have two meanings or that could be understood in two different ways.

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Dramatic irony -

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Occurs in a piece of literature when the audience knows something that some characters in the narrative do not. The spectator of a play or reader of a novel thus has information that at least some characters are aware of which affects the way the audience members react to the plot.

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Elizabethan Era -

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Reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558 - 1603) during which time Shakespeare lived and composed his works.

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Ellipsis -

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Occurs when a word or phrase is left out.

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Epilogue -

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A short poem or speech spoken directly to the audience following the conclusion of a play.

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Euphemism -

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A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

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Exposition -

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The part of the play that provides the background information needed to understand the characters and the action.

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First Folio -

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Shakespeare’s plays were first printed in a single volume (1623)

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Foil -

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A character who contrasts another character usually the protagonist

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Folio -

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A large sheet of paper folded once in the middle making two leaves or four pages of a book or manuscript;

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Globe Theater -

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London theater where Shakespeare’s plays first performed

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Iambic Pentameter -

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A line of verse with FIVE metrical feet each consisting of one short or unstressed syllable