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William Shakespeare

Born April 1564, Received classical education, wrote 38 plays and 4 lengthy poems

Shakespeare Vocab

Foil Shakespeare used many writing tools to write his plays

sonnet

monologue

Blank verse vs. Free verse

Verse vs. Prose

Verse: Organized in straight lines that rhyme (poetic) used for high status characters

Prose: Ordinary written language used for low status characters

Meter

Used for creating the rhyme of the line

Foot

Syllables that from one complete metrical pattern

Iambic pentameter

common pattern Shakespeare use

Iamb: unstressed and stressed syllable

Pentameter: lines of 5 Iambic ft (10 syllables)

Blank verse vs. free verse

Blank: unrhymed iambic pentameter

Free: no regular meter