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william shakespear was born in April in 1564

He was bron in stradford-on-avon

was educated in Latin, Greek, history, mathand music.

Wrote 38 plays that ranged from comedies, romances, tradeties, and histories

- verse: poem that inckudes meter and rhyme in lines with consistent syllables

- prose: orinary poem with no meter or rhyme organized in sentences

- meter- the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

( it is responsilbe for the rhythm of a line)

- foot - a group of syllables that forms a complete unit of metricalk pattern

- iambic pentameter

* iamb - unstressed syllable

* pentameter - lines of 5 iambic feet ( 10 syllables)

- blank verse - unrhymed iambic pentameter

- free verse - no regualr meter

- sonnet: 14 line poem

( usually written in iambic pentameter)

* organizied in 3 quatrains and a couplet

* rhyme scheme ( abab cdcd efef gg)

- quatrain - 4 line verse , usually rhymed

- couplet - pair of rhyming verse lines

- aside -characters remark ( to audience or other character)

* not supposed to be heard

- monolouge - extended speech by a single character( uninterrupted)

- soliloquy - speech given by a charcater when they are alone on stage

- foil - character whose personality or attitudes are sharp contarstto another characters in the same work