Shakespeare Vocabulary

A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.

foreshadowing

flat character

A character that does not change

monologue

A long speech in a play or story, delivered by a single person

symbolism

A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well.

allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

pun

A term for a play on words that have a similar meaning. Ex. A "seafood" diet: I see food and I eat it."

round character

A type of character who changes throughout the story, drama, or novel (shows many different characteristics)

situational irony

An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected

A comment made to the audience, not intended for the other characters to hear. (breaking "fourth wall")

Aside

a type of meter that has 10 syllable in a line of poetry.

Iambic Pentameter

A person struggling with some kind of internal pressure. Internal conflicts are not always evident on the character;s exterior.

Internal Conflict

Poems the express the observations and feelings of a single speaker.

Lyric Poetry

What are the different types of External conflict?

Person vs. person - physical fight between two characters Person vs. nature - person trying to survive against the elements Person vs. society - person trying to go against society's norms or rules

soliloquy

an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any audience

2 line Stanza.

couplet

dramatic irony

facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work

A classification of a poem's meter when most (though certainly not all) of the feet are iambs. Iambic pentameter is the most natural meter for English poetry.

iamb

Verbal irony

irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another (sometimes sarcasm_)

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

meter

4 line stanza

quatrain

14 line poem with fixed structure and rhyme scheme including three quatrains and a rhyming couplet; popularized by Shakespeare

sonnet

imagery

the author "paints a picture" for us using vivid language and sensory details

alliteration

the repetition of initial sounds of words in a row. Ex: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

irony

the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. Often confused with coincidence. Sub genres: verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony

dialogue

A conversation between two or more characters