Shakespeare vocab
Across
- 4. to show or indicate beforehan
- 7. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
- 9. the conversation between characters in a novel, and drama
- 10. noting or pertaining to satirical poetry
- 13. figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect
- 14. dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
- 15. rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry.
- 16. disagreement or argument
- 17. the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- 18. .
- 19. a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
- 20. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
- 21. not reciprocated or returned in kind.
- 23. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
- 24. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition
- 25. unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
Down
- 1. is a character who contrasts with another character
- 2. the use of such metaphors as a literary characteristic, especially in poetry.
- 3. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something
- 5. irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
- 6. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
- 8. fourteenth-century Italian poet whose sonnets were all the rage in Renaissance England.
- 9. a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation.
- 11. a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
- 12. a lyric poem, believed to have been in dithyrambic form, that was sung and danced to, originally as a religious rite, by a company of persons.
- 20. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
- 22. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.