Shakespearean Literary Devices

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Across
  1. 1. a line of verse in poetry with five metrical feet (ten syllables)
  2. 3. incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  3. 5. speech you make to yourself
  4. 8. the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  5. 12. attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  6. 14. a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
  7. 15. a humorous play on words
  8. 16. the decisive moment in a novel or play
  9. 19. unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  10. 20. a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  11. 22. conjoined contradictory terms
  12. 23. when the audience understands something the characters don't
Down
  1. 2. a dramatic speech by a single actor; Other characters can hear the speech
  2. 4. use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  3. 6. a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things; Uses like or as
  4. 7. the act of providing vague advance indications
  5. 9. struggle between opposing characters or forces
  6. 10. a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; express a single and significant idea
  7. 11. extravagant exaggeration
  8. 13. when the audience understands something the characters don't
  9. 17. a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity; Does not use like or as
  10. 18. a line spoken by an actor not intended for others on stage
  11. 21. drama exciting terror or pity