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The Poetry of Shakespeare’s Language Important Terms to Know

iamb: In poetry, an iamb is a metrical foot (unit) consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

iamb Another way to define an iamb: Ta-TUM

iambic pentameter: A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.

Iambic pentameter

blank verse: Unrhymed verse, especially the unrhrymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic and epic verse

Example of blank verse: Hark! What light in yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Add the stress marks to show the rhythm of this iambic pentameter.

Rhymed couplet: Two successive lines of verse of which the final words rhyme with each other. Each line of verse has 10 syllables.

Example of a rhymed couplet: Romeo says of Juliet: Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight. For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.

Oxymoron: A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms. An oxymoron consists of very few words, but when these contradictory terms are put together, a kind of truth is revealed.

Examples of oxymorons: Sweet sorrow Wise fool Honest thief

personification: Using human qualities and attributes to describe an animal or object.

Example of personification: “Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon.”