Shakespeare/Theatre Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a monologue that occurs when a character is alone to reveal their inner feelings
  2. 6. a character that serves as a contrast to another character
  3. 8. to declare as evil or foretell misery
  4. 10. a letter, especially a long or official one
  5. 11. a story that begins with sadness or chaos but ends with resolution
  6. 13. a story that begins well but ends with sadness, calamity, or death
  7. 15. when literature or drama provides a strong emotional experience that results in emotional cleansing
  8. 17. a ghost
  9. 18. a stage direction that indicates that the actors leave the stage
  10. 19. when the audience knows information that the characters do not
Down
  1. 1. one who avoids giving a clear answer, a liar
  2. 3. busy, boisterous activity
  3. 4. a group of actors who comment on the main action of a play
  4. 5. an old word for a warning of imminent danger
  5. 7. a person or thing that announces the approach of another
  6. 9. planting suggestions or warnings about things to come
  7. 12. verse unrhymed iambic pentameter
  8. 13. a man who was granted land by a king or military nobleman
  9. 14. when a character breaks apart from the events of the story to briefly address the audience or themselves
  10. 16. fate or destiny