Shakespeare's Othello

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Shakespeare's Othello

Shakespeare's was born in April 1564

Wrote 8 plays and 4 lengthy poems and a sonnet cycle.

Some of Shakespeare's vocabulary were verse vs. prose, meter, foot, sonnet, couplet, tragedy, tic hero etc.

Verse: Poetic language that includes meter and sometimes rhyme. organized in lines with consistent number of syllables. Poetic style of verse used for high status characters, great affairs of war and state, and tragic moments.

Prose: Ordinary written language with no meter or rhyme and organized in sentences. Used for low status characters , proclamations, written challenges accusations, letters, comedic moments and to express madness.

Meter: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. It is responsible for creating the rhythm of a line. Described in terms of the pattern of stressed and unstressed