Across
- 5. a combination of contradictory terms
- 6. character who does not change in the course of a story
- 8. a story written to be acted for an audience
- 10. a group who says things at the same time
- 12. a play or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy ending
- 16. a play on multiple meanings on a word
- 17. Verse-poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- 18. fourteen line lyric poem
- 19. a speech by one character in a play
Down
- 1. direct, unadorned form of language written or spoken, in ordinary use
- 2. character who is used as a contrast to another character.
- 3. character who changes as a resulet of the story's events
- 4. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
- 7. words that are spoken by a character to the audience but that are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage
- 8. the audience knows something important that the character in a play doesn't know
- 9. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
- 11. a writer or speaker says one thing but means something completely different
- 13. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
- 14. usually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses their thought aloud
- 15. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot