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Shakespearian Devices Part 1
Shakespearian Devices
Part 2
Shakespearian Devices Part 3
Shakespearian Devices
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Misc.
100
The children like the ocean shore, We want to leave but they want more.
What is a Couplet?
100
He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there's some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.
What is a Quatrain?
100
t was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
What is a Sestet?
100
Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain.
What is an Octave?
100
(A) New life begins to spring to life in spring (B) Green shoots appear in the April showers (A) Birds migrate back home and rest tired wings (B) Summer brings green fields full of bright flowers (C) Paddling pools and ice creams all around (B) The sun shines fiercely with all its powers (C) Autumn sends leaves tumbling to the ground (D) The sun sinks lower leaving longer nights (C) Conkers and acorns waiting to be found (D) Winter is a time for Halloween frights (E) Snow on the ground and Jack Frost's ache (D) Celebrations filled with festive delights (E) As winter ends the new year starts to make (E) New life begins to spring to life and awake.
What is Terza Rima?
200
To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life.
What is Monologue?
200
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
What is Soliloquy?
200
An aside is a short speech from a character that is spoken directly to the audience. The other actors on set can physically hear the words, but as their characters they pretend as if nothing was said. The audience understands that the speech was meant for them only.
What is an Aside?
200
Ye ladies, walking past me piteous-eyed, Who is the lady that lies prostrate here? Can this be even she my heart holds dear? Nay, if it be so, speak, and nothing hide. Her very aspect seems itself beside, And all her features of such altered cheer That to my thinking they do not appear Hers who makes others seem beatified. ‘If thou forget to know our lady thus, Whom grief o'ercomes, we wonder in no wise, For also the same thing befalleth us, Yet if thou watch the movement of her eyes, Of her thou shalt be straightaway conscious. O weep no more; thou art all wan with sighs.
What is Sonnet?
200
A subdivision of an epic poem, such as divine comedy.
What is Canto?
300
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief,
What is Iambic pentameter?
300
Midsummers Night Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, and Merchant of Venice are examples.
What is a Comedy
300
“Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage— The which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.”
What is Prologue?
300
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall. That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; (Mending Walls by Robert Frost)
What is Blank Verse?
300
Series such as Divergent, the Lord of the Rings, or the Hobbit movies.
What is a Trilogy?
400
The testimony at the barbershop is mostly hair-say. or After Thanksgiving dinner, I was as stuffed as a turkey!
What is a Pun?
400
Hamlet, Julius Ceasar, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet are examples of this.
What is a Tragedy?
400
“Brutus: Peace! Count the clock. Cassius: The clock has stricken three.” (Time Frame)
What is Anachronism?
400
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. "As You Like It" - Shakespeare
What is Prose?
400
"He was a real Romeo with the ladies." “Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.”
What is Allusion?
500
(Composed of Parts) Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.
What is Structure?
500
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
What is a Lyric Poem?
500
Flowers for Algernon The Beatrice Letters
What is an Epistolary Narrative?
500
My Side by David Beckham The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (about themselves)
What is an Autobiography?
500
The Lord of the Flies -The conch stands for law and order -The beast stands for evil and darkness Animal Farm
What is an Allegory?