Shakespeare terms

5. a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp).
8. irony-the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
10. character character who does not change much in the course of a story.
12. direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
13. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
14. a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
16. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
17. irony-a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
20. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.

1. relief humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
2. character character who changes as a result of the story’s events
3. character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way.
4. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
6. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
7. a story written to be acted for an audience.
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
11. group who says things at the same time
15. fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
18. rhythmed
19. a speech by one character in a play.