Across
- 2. – A play on words with double meanings (Hamlet uses wit and wordplay)
- 5. – Language that creates vivid pictures in the reader’s mind
- 7. – Objects or ideas representing deeper meanings (e.g. Yorick’s skull)
- 9. – A direct comparison saying one thing is another
- 14. – A speech where a character reveals their thoughts alone on stage
- 15. – Hints about what will happen later in the play
- 16. – Ordinary speech used by characters like Polonius or the gravediggers
Down
- 1. – Deliberately repeating words or phrases for emphasis
- 3. – More formal, poetic language used by noble characters
- 4. irony – When the audience knows something characters do not
- 6. – Repetition of the same starting sound in nearby words
- 8. – A repeated idea or image throughout the play (e.g. death, decay)
- 10. – A comparison using “like” or “as”
- 11. – Opposites placed together to highlight differences
- 12. – A quick comment to the audience that other characters cannot hear
- 13. pentameter – The rhythmic pattern Shakespeare mainly writes in