Miss H's Shakespeare Vocabulary

3. A play that has tragic events that lead to an unhappy ending and usually the downfall of a main character.
4. Poetry that uses iambic pentameter but doesn't rhyme.
7. To speak your thoughts aloud when your by yourself or regardless of who hears.
8. An extended metaphor.
12. A speech/poem spoken by a character that reveals things about them as they describe a situation.
14. The pattern of rhyming in poetry.
16. Based of the poetry of Petrarch, it is someone who loves a person but that love isn't returned.
18. Love that is one sided.
20. A poem consisting of 14 lines and has a specified rhyme scheme.
21. Two lines of poetry that follow one another and rhyme.
22. Rhyming that occurs at the end of the lines.
23. A statement by a character that only the audience can hear and none of the other characters in the play can.
24. A figure of speech that pairs contradictory terms.
25. Conversation between at least two people.

1. A figure of speech given to an object or action that cannot be taken literally.
2. When something is understood by the audience but not the characters in the play.
5. A figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as".
6. A sign or warning of something that will happen in the future.
9. A recurring idea.
10. The introduction of a play.
11. A group of performers that discuss the main action, usually they speak at the same time.
12. Two characters that have exact opposite personalities.
13. A line of poetry that has five metric feet, each foot containing one unstressed and one stressed syllable.
15. A condition in which a person experiences a clash of opposing wishes or needs.
17. A joke that focuses on the humor of using words that sound alike but have different meanings.
19. Words that imitate their sound.