Shakespeare terms

2. Character a character who changes throughout a story.
3. language which appeals to the senses—sight, feeling, hearing, touch, taste.
6. figure of speech that combines contradictory terms (a paradox condensed to 2 words)… Icy Hot… Darkness Visible… Deafening Silence… Military Intelligence (ouch!)
9. a character that is the opposite of another character
11. a character who remains the same throughout a story.
13. a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (destiny) and having a sad or disastrous conclusion that arouses both pity and fear.
14. a long speech whose purpose is to give information to the audience. Other characters are also listening to the speech.
16. a message about life, society, or human nature. A motif may support a theme.
18. saying one thing but meaning something else. This can be sarcasm. when the audience/reader knows something that the characters do not know. based on what the audience or reader expect. Something unexpected happens or the opposite of what is naturally expected happens.
19. a speech or remark addressed to the audience by one of the actors while other actors on stage pretend not to hear. It’s like a soliloquy with other people on stage.
20. the main character of a play—he/she doesn’t have to be a “good guy.”

1. a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but actually makes sense in the text. Like an oxymoron, but includes more than 2 words. Ex: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
4. unrhymed iambic pentameter
5. foretelling the future
7. a scene in a story or play which is intended to relieve the audience from tension or heightened emotion after and just before tragic or serious scenes.
8. he opposing character to the protagonist
10. Anglo-Saxon word for fate or destiny
12. not poetry
15. speech delivered by a character alone on stage to allow people to know what is going on in his mind.
17. a recurring literary convention or an element that is repeated within a literary work or among literary works.