Intro to Othello

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Intro to Othello

Shakespeare

He was born April 1564

Wrote 38 plays

wrote 4 long plays

Verse

language used in poems like rhyming

Usually in stanzas

used for important characters and tragic moments

Prose

Normal language where there is no use of rhyming

it's usually seen as sentences

For minor characters and to emphasize important parts

Meter

The pattern of long and short syllables that creates the poems rhythm

Foot: A group of syllables in a poem like one unstressed and one stressed line

Iambic Pentameter is most common in Shakespeare writing

Iamb: long syllable, short syllable

Pentameter: 10 syllables

Blank verse: An iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme

Free verse: doesn't take syllable into consideration

Sonnet

14 lines

Iambic pentameter

three quatrains and couplet

rhymes

Quatrain: rhymed four line stanza

Couplet: lines with rhyming words at the end

Aside: remark character makes others can't hear

Monologue: A long speech given to others that is not interrupted

Soliloquy: Speech a character gives with no one around

Foil: A character who is the complete opposite to another in the play

Allusion: References other work (Shakespeare did so with Greek and Mythology)

Janus

God of beginnigs and endings

represents transition from young to grown up

Tragedy

story that depicts the downfall of hero

Hero does something wrong which leads his downfall

brings emotions to audience

hero is important to society

makles others sad

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