Shakespeare Play Terminology

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Across
  1. 5. A speech delivered by a single character to other characters or the audience
  2. 7. A long speech in a play where a character speaks their thoughts aloud to themselves while alone on stage, revealing their inner feelings
  3. 9. Notes included in a play to describe how a character should move or how they should sound when they speak
  4. 11. These types of plays often end in the deaths of the main character(s)
  5. 12. A 14-line poem that follows the rhyme pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
  6. 15. Example: Teddy tries to take a ticket
Down
  1. 1. Where a character speaks directly to the audience, and their words are not heard by other characters on stage
  2. 2. Poetic style that doesn't rhyme but uses iambic pentameter.
  3. 3. Reference to a well-known person, place, event, or another literary work
  4. 4. A character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to another
  5. 6. Giving hints about events that are going to happen
  6. 8. Example: the wind whispered secrets through the trees
  7. 9. The smaller units of an act that focuses on specific moments and interactions, often occurring in one place at one time.
  8. 10. Larger units in a play, kind of like chapters in a book
  9. 13. Example: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this and this gives life to thee
  10. 14. a story written in script format that is meant to be performed by actors