Grade 7 (Shakespearean Dictionary)

What is iambic pentameter?

• a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable

• a short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience or to himself, while other actors on the stage cannot listen

• A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase (jumbo shrimp)

• the kind of everyday writing or speech that does not have the rhyme or rhythm patterns of poetry

What is blank verse?

• verse without rhyme

• a short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience or to himself, while other actors on the stage cannot listen

• A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase (jumbo shrimp)

• the kind of everyday writing or speech that does not have the rhyme or rhythm patterns of poetry

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

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

• Pun

• Dramatic irony

• Chorus

• Aside

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A character whose personality and attitude contrasts sharply with those of another character; used to highlight both characters' traits

• Aside

• Tragic hero

• Soliloquy

• Foil

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a long speech spoken by a character to himself, another character, or the the audience

• monoloque
• scene
• soliloquy
• stage directions

language which works to evoke images in your mind

• imagery
• irony
• metaphor
• oxymoron

figurative language in which a work of phrase is replaced by another, often indication a likeness or similarity (comparison)

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• personification
• prose

a play on words, especially those that sound alike, but having different meanings

• pun
• rhyming couplet
• simile
• act

A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or two words that sound alike but have different meanings.

• pun

• prose

• oxymoron

• couplet

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