Language and structure

Language and structure

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rhymed verse

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Cards (11)

Section 1

(11 cards)

rhymed verse

Front

Consists of a verse with end rhyme and regular meter-usually rhyming couplets

Back

heroic couplet

Front

two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit

Back

dramatic irony

Front

when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't

Back

Prose

Front

written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. No regualr pattern or accentuated rhythm

Back

How much of the play is in verse

Front

1/3

Back

blank verse

Front

unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Antithesis

Front

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Back

Orsino: iambic pentameter/blank verse

Front

'If music be the food of love play on'

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capping couplet

Front

a technique in which Shakespeare rounds off a speech with a rhyming couplet (often a heroic couplet) in order to draw attention to an idea.

Back

How much of the play is in prose

Front

2/3

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Viola speaking in prose+sound of something important

Front

'My father had a daughter loved a man As it might be perhaps, were I a woman, I should your Lordship. '

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