Shakespeare Literary Terms

2. A combination of contradictory terms(EX: Jumbo Shrimp).
3. The audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know.
4. Character who does not changes much in the course of a story.
11. Humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
12. A speech by one character in a play.
15. A play, novel,or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
17. Event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
19. A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot.
20. A play on multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.

1. Character who changes as a result of the story's events.
5. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the character the EXIT of a character or the end of a scene.
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.
7. A group who says things at the same time.
8. A story written to be acted for an audience.
9. Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
10. An unusually long speech in which a character who is on a stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
13. A writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different.
14. Direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use.
16. 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).
18. Character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of two characters this way.