Antagonist
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Pun
A play on words wherein a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time. The line below,
spoken by Mercutio in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," is an example of a pun. Mercutio has just
been stabbed, knows he is dying and says:
Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a
grave
man.
Mercutio's use of the word "grave' renders it capable of two meanings: a serious person or a corpse
in his grave.
Quatrain
A four-line stanza which may be rhymed or unrhymed. A
heroic quatrain
is a four line stanza
rhymed abab. John Donne's "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" is a poem of nine heroic
quatrains: The following is the first stanza of the poem:
As virtuous men pass mildly away
And whisper to their souls, to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breath goes now, and some say, no:
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