Definitions to understand Shakespeare work

It is a drama in which a series of actions leads to the downfall of the main character.

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Tragedy

• Tragic flaw

It is a speech given by a character alone on stage, used to reveal his or her private thoughts and feelings.

• Aside

• Soliloquy

• Tragic hero

• Repetition

It is an error in judgment or a character defect that ultimately leads to his or her downfall.

• Tragedy

• Tragic hero

• Tragic flaw

• Parallelism

It is of high social rank(a king, prince, or general). Has a tragic flaw and because of that suffers complete ruin or death.

• Tragedy

• Tragic hero

• Tragic flaw

• Aside

They are unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his works using this.

• Blank verse

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Rhetorical questions

It is a pattern of rhythm that has five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable.

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Rhetorical questions

• Iambic pentameter

It is the use of words and phrases more than once to emphasize ideas

• Parallelism

• Repetition

• Aside

• Rhetorical questions

It is a character's remark , either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear. lets the audience in on character's thoughts and secrets.

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Iambic pentameter

• Aside

It is the repetition of grammatical structures to express ideas that are related or of equal importance

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Aside

• Soliloquy

It is the use of questions that require no answer to make the speaker's rightness seem self-evident

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Aside

• Rhetorical questions