othello notes

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Willaim shaksepear: born on April 1564 in startford on avon

began as an actor wrote 38 plays and 8 poems

verse: poetic language includes meter sometimes rhyme

prose: ordinary written language no rhyme

meter:the patter of stressed and unstressed syllables (responsible for creating rhythm

Foot:syllable that form a metric pattern

iambic pattern:unstressed syllable, stressed syllable, lines of five iambic feet, 110 syllables

Blank verse: unrhymed iabmbic pattern

free verse: no regular meter

sonnet:14 line poem, three quatraints and couplet

quatrain:4 line verse stanza

couplet:pair of rhyming verse line