FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PLAY BY SAKESPEAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Serious letters
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Iambic pentameter
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Rhyming verse
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Couplets
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prose is the form of speech used by common people in Shakespearean drama. There is no rhythm or meter in the line. It is everyday language. Shakespeare’s audience would recognize the speech as their language.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare switches between prose and verse often in his plays, with lower class characters generally speaking prose, and upper class characters speaking verse, though characters frequently speak both, sometimes switching in the middle of a speech.
Detailed explanation-3: -The play with most prose-87%-is The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Blank Verse refers to unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse resembles prose in that the final words of the lines do not rhyme in any regular pattern (although an occasional rhyming couplet may be found).