Shakespeare Drama

A single character in a play who speaks the prologue and comments on the course of events.

• Chorus

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Solioquy

When a character(s) are not aware of something that the audience knows.

• Dramatic irony

• Rhyming couplet

• Comic relief

• Chorus

A joke that results from multiple word meanings or rhyming sounds, e.g., A horse is a very stable animal.

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Chorus

• Oliloquy

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A 14-line poem, typically about love or romance, that contains three quatrains (sets of four lines) and a rhyming couplet. Written in iambic pentameter, and follow the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

• Iambic pentameter

• Sonnet

• Blank verse

• Chorus

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A form of poetry that most resembles natural speech. It is made up of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.

• Rhyming couplet

• Oxymoron

• Blank verse

• Comic relief

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A protagonist, or central character, who falls or dies because of a character flaw or cruel twist of fate.

• Foil

• Blank verse

• Aside

• Tragic hero

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

When a character speaks in order to be heard by the audience but not, supposedly, by the other characters.

• Pun

• Dramatic irony

• Chorus

• Aside

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, e.g., "seriously funny."

• Oxymoron

• Soliloquy

• Blank verse

• Chorus

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Two lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter; may be used to emphasize meaning.

• Rhyming couplet

• Comic relief

• Blank verse

• Iambic pentameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A line of verse with ten syllables -- five pairs of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity.

• Iambic pentameter

• Sonnet

• Rhyming couplet

• Blank verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9