Note taking activity Othello

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William Shakespeare

He received an education in latin, greek, history and others

He was an actor

Wrote 38 plays and 4 lengthy poems

Shakespeare's vocabulary

Verse: a poem with a rhyme and number of syllables

Prose: written language with no meter or rhyme

Usage:

Verse used for high status, tragic moments

Prose are used for low status

Meter: The pattern of stressed and not stressed syllables

They have the rhythm of the line.

Foot: Group of syllables that has metrical pattern.

Blank verse: unrhymed

Free verse: No regular meter

Sonnet has 14 lines, a quatrain, rhyme scheme of abab

Aside: Not supposed to hear

Monologue is an extended speech of a character

Soliloquy is a speech of a character when they are alone.

Foil is a character who has a sharp personality