Shakespeare Lit Term
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| Drama | A story written to be acted for an audience
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| Tragedy | A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
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| Prologue | A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
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| Chorus | A group who says things at the same time
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| Static Character | Character who does not change much in the course of a story
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| Dynamic Character | Character who changes as a result of the story’s events
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| Aside | Words spoken by a character in a play, usually in an undertone and not intended to be heard
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| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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| Iambic Meter | Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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| Iambic Pentameter | Five verse feet with each foot an iamb (a total of 10 syllables)
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| Pun | The humorous use of word or phase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time
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| Monologue | A long, uninterrupted speech presented in front of other characters
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| Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory terms
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| Soliloquy | A speech in which a character in alone on stage and expresses thoughts out loud
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| Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes
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