Introduction to Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Plays as Poetry: Literary Techniques: Define the techniques. You may have to use a dictionary or the Internet.

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

Couplet

Rhyme scheme

Shakespearean sonnet

Puns

Malapropism

Soliloquy

Foil

Irony

-verbal irony

-dramatic irony

Allusion

Aside

Imagery

Round character

Flat character

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

Meter

Enjambment

Oxymoron