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Card 6

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a common dramatic convention in which a character speaks in such a way that some of the characters on stage do not hear what is said, while others do. It may also be a direct address to the audience, revealing the character's views, thoughts, motives

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Card 7

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intensification achieved by repeating vowel sounds: 'There is a willow grows aslant a brook / That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.' (IV.7.167–8)

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Card 8

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a sense of closure

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Card 9

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a pause in the middle of a line of verse, usually where a sentence ends: 'Yet here Laertes? Aboard, aboard for shame!' (I.3.55)

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Card 10

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the art of creating sharply differentiated personalities. Shakespeare's major characters have distinctive ways of thinking and speaking. They cannot be mistaken for one another

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Card 11

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everyday, informal chat, such as the gravediggers use in Act V Scene 1

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Card 12

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a pair of consecutive lines of poetry which rhyme: 'The time is out of joint: O cursèd spite, / That ever I was born to set it right. –' (I.5.189–90)

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Card 13

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the art of creating sharply differentiated personalities. Shakespeare's major characters have distinctive ways of thinking and speaking. They cannot be mistaken for one another

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Card 14

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a rigorous appraisal of a work of literature, a literary convention, a political idea or a state of affairs, etc.

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Card 15

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the climax of a story, the moment when the whole plot is finally revealed (from the French for 'untying a knot')

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