Shakespeare Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. relief humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
  2. 3. character character who does not change much in the course of a story.
  3. 8. a story written to be acted for an audience.
  4. 9. a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp).
  5. 10. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
  6. 14. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
  7. 17. 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; abab cdcd efef gg).
  8. 18. 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
  9. 19. character character who changes as a result of the story’s events
Down
  1. 1. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
  2. 2. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
  3. 4. a group who says things at the same time
  4. 5. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
  5. 6. a speech by one character in a play.
  6. 7. a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
  7. 11. irony the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
  8. 12. direct,unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
  9. 13. 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.
  10. 15. irony a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
  11. 16. character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way.