Language used in Shakespeare's Plays

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What is blank verse?

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Text that follows an iambic pentameter but doesn't always rhyme.

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Do only Shakespeare's lower-class characters speak in prose?

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Mostly.

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Is a couplet only used at the end of a sonnet in Shakespeare's plays?

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False.

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What does dramatic irony mean?

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A character's words or actions are clear to the audience but unknown to the character speaking them.

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What does verse in Shakespeare's plays mean?

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The lines follow a specific pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that didn't necessarily rhyme.

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What is iambic pentameter?

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A type of poetic meter that consists of five iambs (unstressed-stressed syllable pairs) per line.

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What is prose in the context of Shakespeare's plays?

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Ordinary written or spoken language without a metrical structure.

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What is a sonnet?

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A 14-line poem typically written in iambic pentameter, often with a specific rhyme scheme.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.