Shakespeare Vocab

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‘a

he

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a’

on

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an’/and

if

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anon!

soon! right away! coming!

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but

if, or only

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good-den/go-den

good evening

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hap/happy

lucky/lucky

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8

humor

mood or moisture

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9

Jack

common fellow, ordinary guy

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10

maid

unmarried girl, virgin

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mark/hark

listen to

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12

nice

trivial, foolish

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owes

owns

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shrift

confession or forgiveness

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15

soft!

quiet! hush!

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stay!

wait!

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withal

with that, with

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wot

know

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wherefore

why

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ere

before

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dost/doth

do/does

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thou/thee

you

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whither

to where

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hast

have

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shrew

a bad-tempered woman

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iambic pentameter

each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable, for a total of 5 iambs in each line

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blank verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

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couplets

two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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end-stopped line

has punctuation at its end

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run-on line

no punctuation at the end of the line, meaning it is to be read continuously with the following lines

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shakespearean sonnet

14 lines written in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg

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