Literary Terms to Know

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Across
  1. 3. a work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience
  2. 5. a long speech spoke to the audience or another character
  3. 6. a division of an act into smaller parts
  4. 8. a humourous work of drama
  5. 9. a serious work of drama in which the hero suffers catastrophe or serious misfortune, usually because of his own actions
  6. 12. a list of characters presented before the action begins
  7. 14. a protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads the their demise
Down
  1. 1. thoughts spoken aloud by a characters when he/she is alone or thinks they are alone
  2. 2. a line of poetry with 5 iambs and 2 syllables each
  3. 4. a character nearly opposite another
  4. 7. when the audience or readers know something that the characters don't
  5. 10. a division within a play, much like chapters of a novel
  6. 11. conversation between two or more characters
  7. 13. lines that are spoke by a character directly to the audience