Play Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. Irony when the audience knows something that the characters do not know yet
  2. 4. a story that ends happily, usually funny
  3. 6. long speech by one character to another character in a book, play or film
  4. 7. when a character is alone on stage speaking to him/herself or the audience
  5. 8. Directions instructions that describe how a character moves and speaks, audience does not hear these
  6. 9. a set of two rhyming lines, sonnet
  7. 10. a person who acts in plays, movies and television
Down
  1. 1. a story acted out, live and onstage
  2. 2. the words spoken by characters in a book, play, film
  3. 3. a serious story that ends unhappily, usually in one or more character’s death
  4. 5. 5 unstressed-stressed syllable units per line (prë-fér)
  5. 7. a 14 line poem, written in iambic pentameter, with a regular rhyme scheme (AABB, ABAB, ABBA, etc)