Patterns
the repetition of a final syllable in different words, most often at the ends of lines at certain intervals.
What is a rhyme?
A collection of metrical lines of poetry; the opposite of prose.
What is verse?
A prolific and famous 16th century playwright and poet, often referred to as "The Bard."
Who is William Shakespeare?
a sequence of continuous action in a play.
What is a scene?
The beat or flow of a poem, created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, which can be regular or irregular.
What is a rhythm?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. (Similar to a paragraph in prose.)
What is a stanza?
The city in which Shakespeare lived, worked, performed, and wrote.
What is London?
A major division of a play, containing multiple scenes and organizing the overall narrative structure.
What is an Act?
The pattern of rhyming sounds within a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a couplet?
The most well-known nickname for William Shakespeare.
Who is The Bard?
An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
What is a stage direction?
The rhythmic structure of a line of poetry, created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables organized into repeating units called "feet."
What is a meter?
A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
What is a quatrain?
The name of the place where Shakespeare's plays were (and still are) performed.
What is The Globe Theatre?
An indirect reference to a literary work that the author expects the reader to recognize.
What is Literary Allusion?
A poetic meter where each line has ten syllables, alternating between unstressed and stressed syllables, for a total of five "iambs" per line.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
A 14-line poem with a specific meter, most often iambic pentameter, and a set rhyme scheme.
What is a Sonnet?
A period of English history from 1558 to 1603, named for Queen Elizabeth I's reign.
What is the Elizabethan Era?
The 3 most commonly used literary allusions.