Shakespeare

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Across
  1. 5. (“unrhymed”-no rhyme at the end of lines) Verse-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
  2. 7. character who does not change much in the course of a story
  3. 9. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
Down
  1. 1. character who changes as a result of the story’s events
  2. 2. character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
  3. 3. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
  4. 4. a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp)
  5. 6. 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
  6. 8. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene