Shakespeare Terms

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