Shakespearean Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Central idea of a work of literature; lesson learned
  2. 5. A speech, passage, or event that comes before the play begins and gives the basic situation
  3. 7. Irony- An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
  4. 10. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
  5. 12. A conversation between two or more characters
  6. 15. A division of an act into smaller parts
  7. 16. A reason for doing something
  8. 17. A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
  9. 19. A character who does not change throughout the story
  10. 21. The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
  11. 23. Irony- When a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
  12. 24. A play on words
  13. 25. A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood
Down
  1. 2. A long speech by one person addressed to and heard by other characters on stage.
  2. 3. A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
  3. 4. An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
  4. 6. A character who acts as a contrast to another character
  5. 8. A major division of a play
  6. 9. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
  7. 11. A literary work which ends happily because the hero or heroine is able to overcome obstacles and get what he or she wants.
  8. 12. A character who changes throughout the story
  9. 13. A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
  10. 14. Irony- A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
  11. 18. A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage which is unheard by other characters.
  12. 20. A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.
  13. 22. A protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to his demise