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Qualities of Shakespeare’s Plays. Dramatic Structure The structure of the plot of Shakespeare’s plays is usually as follows: Exposition and exciting force.

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1 Qualities of Shakespeare’s Plays

2 Dramatic Structure The structure of the plot of Shakespeare’s plays is usually as follows: Exposition and exciting force (characters and problems): Act 1 Rising Action (leads to climax): Acts 1-2 Climax (turning point): Act 3 Falling Action: Acts 4-5 Resolution: Act 5

3 Dramatic Irony Results when the audience knows more than one or more of the characters Helps build suspense

4 Monologue A long speech given onstage in the presence of others.

5 Soliloquy A speech given by a character alone on stage, used to reveal his or her private thoughts and feelings

6 Apostrophe This is a speech given by an actor onstage in which he or she addresses a personification or abstract concept that is not physically present onstage.

7 Aside A character’s remark, either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear

8 Pun A play on the double meaning of a word. Ex: “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.” (from Romeo & Juliet). The above exemplifies a pun because, since Mercutio is dying, he will be in his grave tomorrow, but he will also be grave (as in serious) because he will be dead. Ha!

9 Malapropism The mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar. Ex: The weather in Charlotte is cold one day and hot the next; it really flatulates (should be fluctuates).

10 Blank Verse & Iambic Pentameter Blank verse is unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare’s plays are primarily written in blank verse Iambic pentameter is a pattern of rhythm that has five unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable in one line of poetry

11 Rhetorical Devices A rhetorical device is a use of language for a particular effect. Shakespeare uses many rhetorical devices, such as repetition (the use of words and phrases more than once in a short space to emphasize ideas), parallelism (the repetition of grammatical structures to express ideas that are related or of equal importance, and rhetorical questions (a question that expects no answer; used to make the speaker’s rightness seem self-evident).

12 Stage Directions Stage directions are written in brackets. Be sure to read them!

13 Words to know… An: ifMarry: mild oath or exclamation Aught: anythingPrithee: please Beseech: betSave: except But: onlySoft: wait a minute Durst: daredThither: there Ere: beforeWherefore: why Hie: hurryWhither: when Hither: hereWithal: also Mark: notice


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