Across
- 3. character who does not change much in the course of a story.
- 5. direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
- 6. a combination of contradictory terms
- 8. character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way.
- 10. a group of people who says things at the same time
- 13. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
- 14. character who changes as a result of the story’s events
- 18. the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
- 19. fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
- 20. a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
Down
- 1. poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (“pent”=5; “meter”=measure); each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
- 2. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
- 4. a speech by one character in a play.
- 7. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
- 9. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
- 11. a story written to be acted for an audience.
- 12. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meaning
- 15. words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage
- 16. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; it often signals the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
- 17. a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.