vocabulary
Across
- 3. a character or force against which another character struggles
- 4. When a character says something to the audience that isn’t heard by the other characters
- 5. the play wright's instructions to the actors
- 7. the invisible division between the characters and the audience
- 9. an introductory speech that introduces background information or characters
- 11. A character's main drive or purpose
- 12. A subdivision of an act – one event or conversation
- 13. A conversation between two or more characters
- 14. A group of characters (esp. in a Greek tragedy) who act like narrators and comment on the action without participating
- 17. The main chararcter in the literary work-the one we "root for"
- 19. A secondary character whose situation parallels the main character’s
- 21. A type of drama in which characters experience a reversal in fortune, usually for the worse a type of drama in which
Down
- 1. The major division in a play;can be divided into scenes
- 2. A character who undergoes little to no inner change
- 6. This person undergoes an important change or development during the play
- 8. the events in the play
- 10. A dramatic work in which the main theme is triumph over adverse circumstances
- 15. lines spoken by only one character
- 16. the arrogant pride in a character that will ultimately lead to his/her downfall
- 18. A type of drama in which characters experience a reversalin fortune, usually for the worse
- 19. A secondary character whose situation parallels the main
- 20. A parallel or smaller plot that coexists with the main action of the play