Vocab 9

n. a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts onstage alone

n. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

n. a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.

a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, such as a change in personality or attitude

N.unryhmed iambic pentameter;Shakespeare writes all his plays in blank verse

M.character in a drama makes a short speech heard by audience or another character but not others on stage

n. a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow

n. the struggle between forces in a literary work

N. A period in English literary history during the years 1500-1660: drastic changes occurred which altered life

a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces

n.it was the height of the English Renaissance, and saw the flowering of English literature and poetry (1558-1603)

n. a weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero.

n. French for “rebirth”: a term referring to the transformation of Western culture following the Medieval Period

N. Statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but upon closer examination may express a truth

4 line stanza