| -Shakespeare Vocabulary | … |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same consonant sounds (but not necessarily the same letter) at the beginnings of successive words (initial alliteration) or in the middle of words (internal or hidden alliteration) or at the ends of words (end alliteration) |
| Allusion | A short reference to a famous person, a place, a historical event, or another work of literature |
| Aside | When a character’s dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage; useful for giving the audience special information about the other characters onstage or the action of the plot |
| Inversion | A rearrangement of the usual order of the parts of a sentence, primarily for emphasis or to achieve a certain rhythm or rhyme |
| Malapropism | The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one, often used with unintentionally amusing effect |
| Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings |
| Soliloquy | The convention by which characters address themselves or the audience, sometimes while alone and sometimes as an aside while other characters are present |
| Run-On Line/ enjambment | A line of poetry that has no pause, that is, no punctuation at the end but flowed into the next line to complete the thought. |
| Caesura | The pause or break within a line of poetry, usually created by punctuation |
| End- stopped line | When a line ends in a full pause as indicated by a mark of punctuation |
| Rhyme | The use of similar or identical sounds in the accented syllables of two or more words |
| End rhyme | Occurs at the end of a line of poetry |
| Internal rhyme | Working a line of poetry |
| Eye rhyme | Words that look but do not sound alike |
| Near/Slant Rhyme | Words that almost rhyme |
| Rhyme scheme | The order in which rhymed words recur at the ends of the lines |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry of any length or meter with end rhymes- usually a couplet contains a complete idea |
| Triplet | Three consecutive lines of poetry of any length or meter with end rhymes |
| Rhythm | The arrangement of syllables a poem |
| Accented/ stressed syllables | Those that are said loudly, indicated by an á |
| Unaccented/unstressed syllables | Those that are said softly and are indicated by a u |
| Delays/ omissions | Create confusion in comedies |
| Meter | The rhythm in a verse produced by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Free verse | A poem that lacks a definitive pattern in rhyme or rhythm |
| Iamb | unstressed and stressed symbols together |
| iambic paramater | five iambs |
| Midsummer nights dream is written in what? | Iambic pentameter (U/) Art(u)/ist’ |
| How can you tell the difference between prose and poetry | Prose has equal lines and no stanzas |
| -Characters | … |
| Puck | or Robin Goodfellow: Mischievous fairy, solved lover’s problems- closest character to a protagonist |
| Oberon | Fairy King, in a squabble with Queen about a changeling |
| Titania | Fairy Queen, under love potion by puck, falls in love with donkey bottom |
| Lysander | First in love with Hermia, puck makes him in love with Helena, then he becomes in love with Hermia at the end |
| Demetrius | First loved Hermia, but influenced by puck to love Helena instead |
| Hermia | Egeus’s daughter, falls in love with Lysander, and runs off into the forest described as being short |
| Helena | First in love with Demetrius, then thought to be mocked by him and lysander |
| Egeus | Hermia’s father, complains to Thesius about her not loving Demetrius |
| Theseus | Duke of Athens, won Hippolyta in war: married with the lovers in the end |
| Hippolyta | Queen of the Amazons and Theseus’s Wife |
| Nick Bottom | Rude mechanical and weaver, transformed into donkey head, plays Pyramus in the play |
| Peter Quince | Rude mechanical and carpenter, leader of the group plays the prologue of the play |
| Francis Flute | Rude mechanical and bellows-mender, plays Thisbe in the play |
| Robin Starveling | Rude mechanical and tailer, plays Moonshine in the play |
| Tom Snout | Rude mechanical and tinker, plays Pyramus’s father in the play |
| Snug | Rude mechanical and joiner, plays the lion in the play |
| Philostrate | Theseus’s Master of the Revels, responsible for organizing the entertainment for the duke’s marriage celebration. |
| Titania’s three fairies | Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, and Mustardseed |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ Shakespeare Vocabulary
August 10, 2019