Much Ado (play) terminology

1. Speech between characters (8)
4. Unstressed syllable follow by a stressed syllable. (4)
5. The reverse of an iamb. Stress on first syllable instead of second (7)
10. Saying one thing and meaning another, saying one thing and meaning the opposite. eg. Beatrice's hatred for marriage and then falling in love with BenedickM (5)

2. A speech spoken to the audience when the character is alone on stage eg. Benedick and Beatrice (9)
3. A character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on stage eg. 'You always end with a jade's trick, I know you of old' (6)
6. When each line begins with a capital. More formal. eg. Claudio's exclamation of love for Hero (5, 5)
7. Mistakenly using one word for another, with humorous consequences eg. Dogberry's speech (11)
8. A regular patterned recurrence of light and heavy stresses in a line of verse (5)
9. Words which sound the same but have different meanings eg. nothing and noting (10)

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