Shakespeare

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Across
  1. 5. a combination of contradictory terms
  2. 6. character who does not change in the course of a story
  3. 8. a story written to be acted for an audience
  4. 10. a group who says things at the same time
  5. 12. a play or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy ending
  6. 16. a play on multiple meanings on a word
  7. 17. Verse-poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
  8. 18. fourteen line lyric poem
  9. 19. a speech by one character in a play
Down
  1. 1. direct, unadorned form of language written or spoken, in ordinary use
  2. 2. character who is used as a contrast to another character.
  3. 3. character who changes as a resulet of the story's events
  4. 4. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
  5. 7. words that are spoken by a character to the audience but that are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage
  6. 8. the audience knows something important that the character in a play doesn't know
  7. 9. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
  8. 11. a writer or speaker says one thing but means something completely different
  9. 13. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
  10. 14. usually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses their thought aloud
  11. 15. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot