Romeo and Juliet

3. a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp)
6. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal
11. character who changes as a result of the story’s events
13. (“unrhymed”-no rhyme at the end of lines) Verse-poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (“pent”=5; “meter”=measure); each line of
14. a story written to be acted for an audience
16. contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
17. of the plot
18. a group who says things at the same time
19. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
20. direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
21. fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes (Shakespearean-3 four-line
23. or quatrains, followed by a concluding two-line unit, or couplet;

1. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief
2. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
4. character who does not change much in the course of a story
5. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
7. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
8. character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
9. a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
10. a speech by one character in a play
11. the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
12. 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
15. in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
22. a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important