Shakespeare Vocab

2. A type of monologue in which a character speaks to themselves relaying thoughts and feelings for only the audience to hear.
4. A literary device by which the audience or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.
7. Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, but not rhyming. Used by characters highest in society.
8. The emotions, reasons, or agenda behind an action or statement of a character.
10. A subdivision of a play. This normally represents actions happening in one place at one time, and is marked off from the next scene by a curtain, a black-out, or a brief emptying of the stage.
11. The way a writer makes a person in a story, play, movie, tv show, etc. seem like a real person. These include things they say, do, are said about them, and how they look.
12. A conversational way of speaking which doesn't have a set rhythm or structure. Used by characters playing common people.
13. A speech given by a single character directly addressing another character or the audience.

1. A remark or comment made by a character in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience alone, and no other characters in the play.
3. The name given to the rhythm that Shakespeare uses in his plays. It is like a heartbeat, with one soft beat and one strong beat repeated five times; du DUM, du DUM, du DUM, du DUM, du DUM. Used by characters who are nobles and ladies.
5. Happens when two opposites are put together. For example, light vs. dark, good vs. evil, etc.
6. Two lines written in iambic pentameter that end in the same sound, or a rhyme. They are often used to sum up the end of a character's speech.Blank verse
9. One of the main divisions of a play, there are traditionally 5 representing the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.