Shakespeare Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 8. -a speech by one character in a play Soliloquy -an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
  2. 10. -the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
  3. 11. -words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage
  4. 12. -character who does not change much in the course of a Story
  5. 15. -event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
  6. 16. -poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
  7. 17. -fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
Down
  1. 1. -a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
  2. 2. -character who changes as a result of the story’s events
  3. 3. -a group who says things at the same time
  4. 4. -two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
  5. 5. -a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
  6. 6. -a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
  7. 7. -character who is used as a contrast to another character
  8. 9. -direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken in ordinary use
  9. 13. -humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
  10. 14. -a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
  11. 18. -a combination of contradictory terms