Othello Powerpoint

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William Shakespeare

Born : April 64, Stratford - on - Avon

Classical education

Actor

Wrote 38 plays, 4 lengthy poems, and sonnet cycle

Verse vs. Prose

Verse is style used in poetry for high status moments or characters

Prose used for low status moments or characters

Meter

Pattern for stressed or unstressed syllables

Responsible for rhythm

Meter and Foot

Group of syllables created a metrical pattern

Measured in pattern of meter and total number of metrical pattern

Iambic Pentameter is most common in Shakespeare's works

unstressed and stressed; Lines of five iambic feet

Blank Verse vs. Free Verse

Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter

Free Verse there is no regular meter

Sonnet

Poem - 14 lines, 3 quatrains 1 couplet

Greater flexibility about theme breaks

Pronounced breaks or turns are concluding couplets

Quatrain and Couplet

Quatrain - 4 lined stanza, rhymes

Couplet - pair of rhyming lines

Aside

A character's dialogue not heard by other characters but mentioned towards the audience or specific character

Monologue

Longer dialogue of one character

Soliloquy

A speech when a character is alone

Foil

A character's personality/attitude is opposite of another character

Allusion

Reference to an event, person, or another piece of literature work

Shakespeare's alludes a lot of Greek and Roman mythology

Janus

Roman god of gates and doors/ start and end

Shown with opposite looking faces

Worshipped during harvest, marriage, birth

Represents transitions to primitive life and civilization

Tragedy

The fall of a great hero

Causes pity and terror from the audience

Hero falls into calamity by hamartia by the form of hubris

Tragic effects depends on the audience's view of the admirable qualities of the hero which are wasted

Classical Tragic Hero

Important and good man

Brought to fall by his own nature

Provokes fear and pity on the reader

Character comes to new