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William was born in April 1567.

had education in Latin, Greek, history, and other subjects

wrote 38 plays

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there was many vocabulary words for that Shakespeare used including Sonnet, Quatrain, foot, couplet, foil and many more

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the difference between verse and prose

verse had rhymes

prose had only written language

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It gives us examples of how the poems should look like

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verses uses high status characters that are rich, war affairs and tragic moments

well prose has low status characters such as drunks, villains and is written with comedic moments

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in Othello they switch between verse and prose

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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. creating the rhythm of a line.

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Foot: a group of syllables that forms one complete unit of a metrical pattern. Meter is described in terms of the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables AND the total number of metrical feet in a line of verse. Iambic pentameter is the most common metrical pattern in Shakespeare.

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Black verse Has no rhythm

Free verse has no regular meter

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Sonnet has 14 line poem

organized in three quatrains and a couplet

typical rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg

four-part organization has greater flexibility about where thematic breaks occur

most pronounced break or turn comes with concluding couplet