Shakespeare terms
Across
- 2. relief humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
- 3. character character who does not change much in the course of a story
- 8. a story written to be played.
- 9. a combination of contradictory terms
- 10. an unusually long speech
- 14. a short introduction at the beginning
- 17. a fourteen line poem.
- 18. words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience
- 19. character character who changes as a result of the story’s events
Down
- 1. event or detail that is inappropriate
- 2. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- 4. a group who says things at the same time
- 5. a play on the multiple meanings of a word
- 6. a speech by one character in a play
- 7. a play
- 11. irony the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
- 12. direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
- 13. verse poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (“pent”=5; “meter”=measure)
- 15. irony a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
- 16. character who is used as a contrast to another character