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Shakespeare Drama Vocabulary
Vocabulary related to Shakespeare's plays.
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
03/02/2009

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Iambic
Definition
unstressed/stressed EG VERMONT
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Trochaic
Definition
Stress/Unstressed EG TEXAS
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Spondaic
Definition
2 stressed EG UTAH
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Anapestic
Definition
unstressed/unstressed/stressed EG ILLINOIS
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Dactylic
Definition
stressed/unstressed/unstressed EG OREGON
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Monometer
Definition
one foot-2 syllables/line
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Dimeter
Definition
2 feet-4 syllables/line
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Octave
Definition
8 lines
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Sestet
Definition
6 lines
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Volta
Definition
A change from one rhyme group to another
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Deus-ex-machina
Definition
Convienient way of tying things up---> all order is restored
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Epizeuxis
Definition
Repitition of words in immediate succession EG "Words, words, words!"
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Schadenfreude
Definition
Pleasure in someone else's pain or misfortune
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Primo-geniture
Definition
Eldest son gets the entire fathers fortune
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Homosocialability
Definition
men/men, women/women BUT not in a romantic sense
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Prelapsarian
Definition
Prior to the fall or lapse in a story
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Sticomythia
Definition
Quick discussion between characters consisting of short one-liners
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Anaphora
Definition
The deliberate repitition of words or phrases at the begining of several successions of lines
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Parison
Definition
Corresponding structure of noun to noun, clause to clause, adjective to adjective etc. EG: My tongue should catch your tongues sweet melody.
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Triplet
Definition
Series of three rhyming lines
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Heroic Couplets
Definition
a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines.
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Anadiplosis
Definition
is the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.EG: "We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us."
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Chiasmus
Definition
two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point. EG "Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt."
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Pathos
Definition
appeals to the audience's emotions
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Prose
Definition
Mimics everyday speech; no meter or rhyme.
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Verse
Definition
Speech using rhythm and meter; lyrical.
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Blank verse
Definition
Regular meter, but no rhyme
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Free verse
Definition
No meter or rhyme, but not everyday language. Still somewhat lyrical.
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