Note taking

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Slide 2 mentions a brief description/background information of who is William Shakespeare and what he accomplished. he was well educated, wrote many plays, wrote several poems, and he most likely started as an actor.

Slide 3 shows the many vocabulary that Shakespeare created. many of those words were literature-related, like "sonnet", "couplet", and "quatrain".

Slide 4 teaches what is verse and what is prose. Verse is written in rhyme or includes meter, while prose is ordinary writing.

Slide 5 has examples of verse and prose written in text.

Slide 6 describes the usage of prose and verse. Verse is for the more important and impacting things, while prose is for the more irrelevant things in a story.

Slide 7 describes a kind of trap of verse and prose in the play of "Othello",saying that it has hard transitions between the two forms of writing. A question is also asked to keep in mind while reading it.

Slides 9-12 describe what some of Shakespeare's new words mean. First is meter which