Shakespeare Terms

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Across
  1. 4. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
  2. 7. a combination of contradictory terms
  3. 8. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
Down
  1. 1. a story written to be acted for an audience
  2. 2. fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
  3. 3. a group who says things at the same time
  4. 5. direct, an unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
  5. 6. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot