Revision of Dramatic Techniques

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Across
  1. 2. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story.
  2. 3. A dramatic technique resulting in laughter.
  3. 8. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.
  4. 9. Is any content of a creative work which is not announced explicitly by the characters or author, but is implicit or becomes something understood by the observer of the work as the production unfolds.
  5. 11. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
  6. 13. A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play is known as a ----- direction.
  7. 15. The resolution of the plot of a literary work.
  8. 16. Dramatic ----- is when a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters.
  9. 18. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse.
Down
  1. 1. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
  2. 4. A tragic ----- is a weakness or limitation of character, resulting in their fall.
  3. 5. The intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
  4. 6. The three u------ is the idea that a play should be limited to a specific time, place, and story line. The events of the plot should occur within a twenty-four hour period, should occur within a give geographic locale, and should tell a single story.
  5. 7. A state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement and builds audience anticipation.
  6. 10. A quality of a play's action that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character.
  7. 12. A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work.
  8. 14. The time and place of a literary work that establish its context.
  9. 17. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself, e.g. the apple tree in All My Sons.