Shakespeare
Across
- 2. A monologue spoken by a character who is alone on the stage. It reveals his/her inner thoughts and motives and so discloses what the character is really like.
- 4. A brief remark by a character, usually to the audience, unheard by other characters
- 6. fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
- 7. A comparison using “like” or “as”
- 10. A fatal flaw in the hero’s character
- 12. Two lines of verse of equal length that rhyme one after the other
- 15. Language that produces pictures in the imaginations of people reading or listening
- 16. Platform or area in a theatre on which the plays are performed to an audience
- 17. A ten syllable line of verse with five stresses di dum, di dum, di dum, di dum, di dum
- 18. A literary work which is primarily written in order to offer the audience a view into the tragic aspects of life
- 19. A part of an act in a play
Down
- 1. Unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter
- 3. Treating something as a human being; giving things human feelings and attributes
- 5. Verbal exchange between two or more characters on the stage
- 8. A comparison that suggests two dissimilar things are actually the same
- 9. Difference between the situation as known to the audience and as supposed by some or all the characters of the play
- 11. Verse in which the sense runs from one line to the next
- 13. A metrical unit of two syllables, the first unstressed, the second stressed
- 14. Used in order to capture and maintain the audience's interest. It is created when the audience is uncertain of what is going to happen next