Shakespeare Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• prologue : a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
• anachronism : event or detail that is very inappropriate for the time period
• static character : character who does not change much in the course of a story
• drama : a story written to be acted for an audience
• prose : direct, unadorned form of language,written or spoken, in ordinary use
• soliloquy : an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
• aside : 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
• tragedy : a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
• monologue : a speech by one character in a play
• dynamic character : character who changes as a result of the story's events
• comic relief : humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
• couplet : two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the exit of a character or end of a scene
• verbal irony : a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different (i could care less!)
• dramatic irony : the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
• sonnet : fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes (shakespearean-3 four-line units or quatrains, followed by a concluding two-line unit (couplet) abab cdcd efef gg
• blank verse : "unrhymed"-no rhyme at the end of the lines -- poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter ("pent"= 5; "meter"= measure); each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
• oxymoron : a combination of contradictory terms (example: jumbo shrimp)
• foil : character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
• chorus : a group who says things at the same time
• pun : a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings