Shakespeare Lit Terms

2. a short remark a character says to the audience or one character that others on stage are not meant to hear.
5. gives human qualities, feelings, or actions to animals, objects, or ideas.
9. a long speech spoken by one character to other characters or the audience.
11. a story written to be acted out on a stage, usually with dialogue and actions instead of narration.
12. a speech where a character talks alone on stage, revealing their private thoughts to the audience.
14. a joke that plays with different meanings or similar sounds of words.

1. a brief reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work to add meaning to a story.
3. compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.”
4. a hint or clue about something that will happen later in the story.
6. Relief a funny scene or character that lightens the mood in a serious story.
7. a serious kind of drama where the main character’s life ends in disaster or great suffering.
8. a character who is very different from another character, making that other character’s traits stand out.
10. compares two different things by saying one thing is another thing, without using “like” or “as.”
13. when what actually happens is very different from what is expected or what is said.