Elements of Drama (with Foreshadowing, Oxymoron, and Couplet)

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Across
  1. 4. advances the plot and is key to the story; good drama uses minimum amounts of this to achieve maximum effect
  2. 5. central problem in a piece of literature (ie: man vs. nature)
  3. 6. side characters not involved in the main action of the play who narrate events by singing or talking
  4. 7. long speech expressing the private or secret thoughts of a single character alone on stage or in the scene
  5. 8. long speech by one character to others on stage or in the scene
  6. 10. figure of speech using contradictory ideas (ie:
  7. 12. another name for lighting, sets, props
  8. 17. work of lit resulting in a catastrophe, a disaster, or misfortune
  9. 18. brief reference to well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
  10. 19. allusion to an element of Greek or Roman culture
  11. 20. the turning point of the piece, play, story, etc.
Down
  1. 1. conversation between two or more characters
  2. 2. clues that suggest something that has yet to happen
  3. 3. the main character
  4. 9. the person(s) who causes conflict for the main character
  5. 11. where Shakespeare's plays were originally performed
  6. 12. works of literature meant to be performed on stage
  7. 13. speech often directed at the audience where other characters on stage do not hear
  8. 14. meter of poetry with five sets of stressed and unstressed syllables
  9. 15. introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation
  10. 16. central message or lesson of the literary work
  11. 19. a pair of rhyming lines