Parts of a Play
Across
- 3. perform a fictional role in a play, movie, or television production.
- 6. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
- 10. the main character
- 11. visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
- 13. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 14. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
- 15. feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader
- 18. a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.
- 19. a group of singers or a refrain in a song
- 20. part of the story after the characters and setting are introduced and where the events of the story begin to create suspense as the character faces conflict.
- 21. where the play is performed
Down
- 1. the section of the plot following the climax
- 2. a person in a novel, play, or movie.
- 4. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
- 5. separate introductory section of a literary or musical work
- 7. the part of a play or work of fiction in which the background to the main conflict is introduced.
- 8. a long speech by one actor in a play or movie
- 9. items held or used by actors onstage to make the action more realistic.
- 12. the opposing character that has a conflict with the protagonist or the bad guy
- 16. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
- 17. a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term