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William Shakespeare

born April 1864

wrote 38 plays

wrote 4 lengthy poems and a sonnet cycle

Shakespeare vocabulary

verse vs. prose

verse includes meter and rhyme, lines and consistent syllables

prose is ordinary written language in sentences

verse used for high status characters and tragic moments

prose used for low status, accusations, and comedic moments

meter

patter of stressed and unstressed syllables

creates rhythm of lines

meter & foot

foot is group of syllables that form unit of metrical pattern

iambic pentameter is most used in Shakespeare

blank verse vs. free verse

blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter