| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aught | anything |
| beguile | deceive by trickery or misleading |
| bestow | give or grant, endow, confer |
| chide | scold or correct someone |
| extenuate | reduce the amount of guilt or blame |
| foul | wrong, evil, dirty, or smelly |
| iambic pentameter | poetry with 10 syllables per line with 5 stressed syllables; the kind of poetry Shakespeare used |
| knave | a servant (literally); a scoundrel or unprincipled man (figuratively) |
| ocular | visual |
| cuckold | a man whose wife is unfaithful to him |
| paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that is actually true on some level |
| prose | the normal writing format organized by paragraphs; the genre that includes the novel, the short story, journalism, etc. |
| eloquent | (of speech or writing) marked by beauty and sophistocation |
| soliloquy | a speech given by a character who is alone on stage to show his/her thoughts to the audience |
| terse | very brief, using few words |
| exuberant | enthusiastic, full of excitement and joy |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something represents the whole |
| contempt | disgust or strong dislike |
| verse | another word for poetry |
| trifle | a small or unimportant thing |
| aside | private words from a dramatic character to himself or to another character, but not meant to be heard by all the other characters on stage |
| virtue | good character; good morals |
| dramatic irony | the effect that results from the audience knowing more than a character does: causing laughter some times but fear for the character at other times |
| conceit | a complicated idea or abstract thought; can also refer to an elaborate metaphor |
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