Shakespeare Plays Terms

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• Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by William Shakespeare.
• The plot of a play is literally the story and what happens in the play.
• The structure of a play refers to how the events of the story are arranged and ordered.
• Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play divided into five acts, each containing multiple scenes.
• Iambic pentameter is a common meter consisting of lines with five feet, each having an unstressed and stressed syllable.
• A soliloquy reveals a character's private thoughts by speaking aloud when alone.
• An oxymoron combines contradictory words, such as "seriously silly" or "living dead," for effect.
• Antithesis expresses opposition of ideas using parallel words that are direct opposites.
• A motif is a recurring image, theme, or character in a literary work, like "old age" in some plays.
• Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows a detail that characters on stage are unaware of.
• Comic relief is a technique used to lighten the mood in a serious or tragic play.
• Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter frequently used in Shakespeare's plays.