William Shakespeare Notes

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Shakespeare's date of birth: April 1564

Born in Stratford-on-Avon

Studied in subjects such as Latin Greek, histroy, astronomy, and muic

Became an actor and playwright with 38 plays written and 4 poems

Vocab: meter, foot, iambic pentameter, sonnet, quantrain, couplet, aside, monologue, soliloquy, allusion, foil, tragedy, tragic hero, tragic flaw,

Verse is a poetic language and prose is an ordinary written language

Use verse for a poem styled story and prose for a regular styled story

Meter is a description of a pattern for syllables and foot is a group of syllables to form one pattern

Iambic pentameter is a most common pattern

Sonnet can be written in iambic pentameter

Foil a personality or attitude trait

Allusion can be pertained to an person, place, or event