Across
- 8. -a speech by one character in a play Soliloquy -an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
- 10. -the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
- 11. -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
- 12. -character who does not change much in the course of a Story
- 15. -event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
- 16. -poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- 17. -fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
Down
- 1. -a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
- 2. -character who changes as a result of the story’s events
- 3. -a group who says things at the same time
- 4. -two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
- 5. -a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 6. -a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
- 7. -character who is used as a contrast to another character
- 9. -direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken in ordinary use
- 13. -humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
- 14. -a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
- 18. -a combination of contradictory terms