Shakespeare

3. - a group who says things at the same timeanachronism - event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
5. poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (“pent”=5; “meter”=measure); each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
6. - direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
7. - a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
9. - a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
11. -humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
13. - a speech by one character in a play
16. - two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
17. - a story written to be acted for an audience
18. -character who does not change much in the course of a story

1. -the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
2. - fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes (Shakespearean-3 four-line units or quatrains, followed by a concluding two-line unit, or couplet; ababcdcd efef gg)
4. - a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
8. - character who changes as a result of the story’s events
10. - a unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
12. - character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
14. - a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp)
15. - a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
19. - 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