| A | B |
|---|
| Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious. | FICKLE |
| A speech given by a character who is alone on stage | SOLILOQUY |
| When a character onstage speaks to the audience and not the other characters | ASIDE |
| A long speech given by a single character | SOLILOQUY |
| Instructions for staging a play; not read aloud | STAGE DIRECTIONS |
| Two consecutive lines that rhyme | COUPLET |
| Literature meant to be performed onstage | DRAMA |
| A play in which the main character suffers a downfall | TRAGEDY |
| The main character in a tragedy; he suffers a downfall due to a tragic flaw. | TRAGIC HERO |
| The flaw in the main character that brings about his/her downfall | TRAGIC FLAW |
| To humiliate or disgrace | ABASE |
| To hate or detest | ABHOR |
| The group of people who come onstage to summarize what has happened and what will happen at the beginning or end of an act | CHORUS |
| Having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious. | MALEVOLENT |
| Contemptuous or ironic in manner or wit; nasty or mocking in speech | SARCASTIC |
| Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; Irreverent | FLIPPANT |
| unprejudiced; unbiased | IMPARTIAL |
| Someone who prepares and sells medicines | APOTHECARY |
| A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter | SONNET |
| Lines of poetry consisting of five iambic feet ( an unstressed then a stressed syllable);there will be ten syllables per line | IAMBIC PENTAMETER |
| A poet; often a singer | BARD |
| Loud and full of energy | BOISTEROUS |
| Billy was excited to be cast as Mercutio. He could envision himself standing with the other characters onstage as he delivered the famous Queen Mab __. | MONOLOGUE |
| SHAKESPEARE IS THE __ OF AVON. | BARD |
| SONNETS ARE WRITTEN IN | IAMBIC PENTAMETER |
| SHAKESPEARE WROTE 154 OF THESE 14-LINE POEMS. | SONNETS |
| THE __ PREPARED MEDICINE FOR THE SICK CHILD. | APOTHECARY |
| IT WAS HARD TO BE __ WHEN ONE OF THE CONTESTANTS WAS HIS DAUGHTER. | IMPARTIAL |
| BOB'S ___ COMMENTS HURT ABBY'S FEELINGS. WHY WAS HE SO MOCKING? | SARCASTIC |
| BEING ___ AND MAKING JOKES WHEN YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SERIOUS CAN GET YOU IN TROUBLE. | FLIPPANT |
| THE ___ SPIRITS FRIGHTENED THE CHILDREN. | MALEVOLENT |
| THE __ CAME ONSTAGE AND SUMMARIZED THE PREVIOUS EVENTS. | CHORUS |
| YOUR BAD BEHAVIOR IN CLASS DOES NOTHING BUT __ YOURSELF. | ABASE |
| I ____ VEGETABLE SOUP. IT IS DISGUSTING. | ABHOR |
| TONY FORGOT ALL ABOUT JENNY WHEN HE SAW SANDY. HE'S SUCH A __ BOY. | FICKLE |
