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Shakespeare: Born in 1564, in Stratford of Avon. He wrote 38 plays about comedy, tragedies, histories, and romance. He studied for many things.

Verse: used in poetry and has to do with rhyme and is organized by the number of syllables it also uses poetic language

Prose: organized by sentences and doesnt rhyme and uses ordinary language

Usage for Verse and Prose: verse is used for high status characters and tragic moments, prose is used for low status characters and comedic moments.

Meter: creates rhythm of a line using stressed and unstressed syllables

Foot: a group od syllables, it forms a metrical pattern

Meter: described as the total number of metrical feet in a liner of verse and pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Iambic Patter: metrical pattern used often by Shakespeare

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Blank verse: an iambic pattern that does not rhyme

Free verse: does not use a meter

Sonnet: a poem that is only 14 lines long and uses a iambic pentameter, uses three quatrains and one couplet, has flexibility where thematic breaks happen because of the four part organization.

Quatrain: usually rhymes and is a 4 line stanza

Couplet: rhyming verse lines

Aside: a characters remark that only the audience is supposed to hear.

Monologue: uninterrupted speech by a character

Soliloquy: when a character gives a speech with no one on the stage

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Foil: a character whose personality or attitude show contrast with another character

Allusion: another event, person, place, or work of literature are referenced

Shakespeare references a lot of greek and roman mythology