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Shakespeare
Shakespeare Final Study Guide
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Fine Art
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12/11/2011

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Rhetoric
Definition
Rhetoric is the art of using language to persuade or influence another.
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Scansion
Definition
Identifying the rhythmic shape of a line is to scan it.
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Pentameter
Definition
A line of verse containing 5 metrical feet.
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Trimeter
Definition
Verse with 3 metrical feet
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Tetrameter
Definition
verse with 4 metrical feet
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hexameter
Definition
verse with 6 metrical feet
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verse
Definition
a line of poetry
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blank verse
Definition
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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meter
Definition
the formal measure of the natural rhythm of language as it falls into regular patterns of stress
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Amphibrach
Definition
x / x
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Pyrrhic
Definition
x x
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iambic
Definition
x /
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trochaic
Definition
/ x
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anapestic
Definition
x x /
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dactyllic
Definition
/ x x
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spondaic
Definition
/ /
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Caesura
Definition
A natural pause in phrasing a metrical line. The perfect one is in a Hexameter
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End-stop
Definition
Completion of a single thought at the end of a poetic line.
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Enjambment
Definition
A run-on-line.
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Masculine Ending
Definition
The last syllable of the line is stressed.
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Feminine Ending
Definition
Unstressed final syllable. (no line ends with a pyrrhic or dactylic foot)
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Operative Word
Definition
The major sense word (or words) in a line.
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Elision
Definition
Deletion of vowels between words. i.e. Sh'aduterates
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Contraction
Definition
Deletion of vowels within a word. i.e. Marg'ret
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Foot
Definition
A single poetic rhythmic measure, usually consisting of two or three syllables.
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Assonance
Definition
Resemblance on sounds, especially in the vowel sounds of words. Internal rhyme.
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Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of the same sounds or syllables in two or more words of a line. Commonly initial sounds, especially consonants.
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Consonance
Definition
A close similarity between consonants or groups of consonants, especially at the ends of words. i.e. strong and sing.
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Simile
Definition
Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
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Metaphor
Definition
Comparison of two dissimilar things NOT using "like" or "as."
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
Use of words of phrases that sound like their referent. i.e. whipperwill
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Pun
Definition
1. Use of one word with two meanings (one is usually obsene)
2. Use of unique words that sound alike.
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Antithesis
Definition
A contrast or opposition of thought within a phrase, sentence, monologue or scene. i.e. I have hope to live and am prepared to die.
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Balance
Definition
Placement of equals in a pharse. i.e. that which made them DRUNK hath made me BOLD
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Climax
Definition
ladder sequence
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Balance
Definition
Placement of equals in a pharse. i.e. that which made them DRUNK hath made me BOLD
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Climax
Definition
ladder sequence
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Irony
Definition
Intended meaning of word used in opposite of the usual sense.
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Anaphora
Definition
Repetition of a key word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.
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Apostrophe
Definition
Literally, a "turning away," to address some imaginary person or idea.
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