Shakespeare Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 2. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
  2. 5. fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes (Shakespearean-3 four-line units or quatrains, followed by a concluding two-line unit, or couplet; abab cdcd efef gg).
  3. 10. a group who says things at the same time
  4. 11. the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
  5. 13. a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
  6. 16. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
  7. 17. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
Down
  1. 1. a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp).
  2. 3. a speech by one character in a play.
  3. 4. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
  4. 5. character who does not change much in the course of a story.
  5. 6. a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
  6. 7. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
  7. 8. character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way.
  8. 9. 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
  9. 12. a story written to be acted for an audience.
  10. 14. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
  11. 15. direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use