Literary Terms

1. Two opposites combined.
6. No punctuation at the end.
7. a monologue spoken to the audience, often while the character is alone on stage
8. A figure of speech which is an exaggeration.
9. Line Punctuation is at the end of it.
11. When Shakespeare rhymes, it’s usually in couplets, two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
13. Irony The tension, humor, or suspense created by a situation in which the audience knows something the character or characters do not know.
16. 14 line poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.
17. A brief reference to something outside of the text, such as a person, event, or place
18. Applying human elements or qualities to non-human things.
19. Words spoken by a character, not intended to be heard by other characters on stage

2. a comparison that does not use like or as.
3. an inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it.
4. Verse Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter. The lines are unrhymed and 10 syllables long. They have alternating stresses
5. Play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
6. Keywords repeated in the course of a speech or conversation for the sake of emphasis.
7. Lines lines split between two characters, typically each character speaks five beats.
10. A comparison that uses like or as.
12. A character that is set up as a contrast to another so that each will stand out vividly.
14. long, uninterrupted speech that is spoken in the presence of other characters.
15. PROSE is spoken for the most part by common people