Shakespeare Terms

2. a speech by one character in a play.
4. a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp).
9. or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
10. character who does not change much in the course of a story.
13. a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
14. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
15. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
16. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
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
19. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene.

1. character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way.
3. a story written to be acted for an audience.
5. the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
6. character who changes as a result of the story’s events
7. fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.
8. poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
11. a group who says things at the same time
12. a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
15. direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
17. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot