Shakespeare Crossword

1. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
3. An ode or series of odes sung by a group of actors.
5. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
7. This happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage.
11. A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable.
16. Be a warning or indication of a future event.
17. A character who contrasts with another character.
20. A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
21. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
23. A male or female that performs a role in a play.

2. When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
4. A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person.
5. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
6. Branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.
8. Or one-sided love, is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such.
9. The concept comes from Petrarch and his sonnets.
10. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
12. a verse without rhyme.
13. A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
14. A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
15. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
18. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
19. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
22. An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
23. Excessive pride in one’s self.
24. The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.