Shakespeare Vocabulary

3. A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
4. An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.
8. An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
10. Two words with the same spelling but different meanings
11. The full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
12. The occurrence of the same consonant at the beginning of adjacent words.
16. A warning of the future or indication of future events
17. The creation of a fictional character
19. A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings
20. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

1. A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract
2. The voice and perspective an author adopts to tell a story.
5. The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
6. A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
7. A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language,
9. Visually descriptive or figurative language
13. The section of the plot leading up to the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story's central conflict grows through successive plot developments.
14. A group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant.
15. A long speech by one actor in a play or movie,
18. Calling something to mind without directly referring to it.