Shakespeare Terms and Language

Suggestions that something will happen later.

• Foreshadow
• Flashback
• Simile

A character speaking one's thoughts aloud when he/she is thought to be alone.

• Soliloquy
• Blank verse
• Couplet

Unrhymed poetry, especially using iambic pentameter

• Soliloquy
• Blank verse
• Couplet

Character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character

• Mood
• Tone
• Foil

What is an aside?

• a brief remark that the audience can hear but characters cannot
• a lengthy speech in which one character is alone on stage
• speech in which a word has a double meaning
• a lengthy speech addressed to the other characters on stage

What is a monologue?

• a lengthy speech in which one character is alone on stage
• _{a brief remark that the audience can hear but characters cannot}
• speech in which a word has a double meaning
• a lengthy speech addressed to the other characters on stage

Dramatic Irony 

• character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
• humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
  
• the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
• two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
  

Dynamic Character

• a story written to be acted for an audience
• a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
• the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
• character who changes as a result of the story’s events

no

• hie

• alas

• anon

• nay

often

• anon

• hie

• nay

• oft