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  1. 5. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
  2. 7. A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another.
  3. 11. to the audience.
  4. 13. In drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be
  5. 15. A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and
  6. 16. The main idea of the story.
  7. 17. A type of refrain (repeated line) device, where the first word or phrase is repeated in a series of
  8. 20. to achieve their goals.
  9. 21. The emotional meaning behind lines of poetry or prose.
  10. 22. The protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty.
  11. 24. MONOLOGUE When a single speaker in literature delivers a long speech to the audience or
  12. 26. A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke
  13. 32. realistic world, treated as ordinary rather than extraordinary.
  14. 34. develop or reinforce the themes of the story.
  15. 36. SCHEME The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem, typically expressed using letters
  16. 40. The use of words that imitate sounds.
  17. 42. Substituting a title, epithet, or descriptive phrase for a proper name, or using a proper name
  18. 46. per line.
  19. 47. A short narrative or story.
  20. 49. IRONY Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but
  21. 50. The dictionary definition of a word.
  22. 52. A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision.
  23. 56. to highlight their contrasts or sometimes unexpected similarities.
  24. 57. heroine oh-so-pure.
  25. 58. A quotation or dedication placed at the beginning of a literary work that hints at the work's central
  26. 59. A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme.
  27. 60. A stanza or group of four lines in a poem, often with a specific rhyme scheme.
  28. 61. Describing a character who is cunning, scheming, and willing to use deceit and
  29. 63. in a continuous, often nonlinear flow.
  30. 64. CHARACTER A character who is relatively simple and one-dimensional, typically defined by a single
  31. 68. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
  32. 69. A reference to another work of literature, person, or event.
  33. 70. OF CONSCIOUSNESS – A narrative technique that presents a character's thoughts, feelings, and
  34. 71. A recurring element in a literary work—such as an image, symbol, phrase, situation, or idea—that
  35. 72. A literary work in which the characters represent abstract ideas; a symbolic representation.
Down
  1. 1. The implied or associative meaning of a word.
  2. 2. A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
  3. 3. A pause within a line of verse.
  4. 4. A writer's or speaker's choice of words.
  5. 6. A contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens.
  6. 8. A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
  7. 9. The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause.
  8. 10. PENTAMETER A metrical pattern in poetry consisting of five iambs (unstressed-stressed syllable
  9. 12. A figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
  10. 14. REALISM A mode in which supernatural or magical elements exist alongside and within an
  11. 18. Placing contrasting ideas in parallel grammatical structure to sharpen the contrast.
  12. 19. A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between
  13. 23. characters.
  14. 25. NARRATIVE A storytelling structure in which past trauma resurfaces indirectly—through
  15. 27. A quality that evokes emotions (especially pity or sorrow).
  16. 28. memory, repetition, and avoidance.
  17. 29. The placement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, or images side by side (or close
  18. 30. The repetition of vowel sounds.
  19. 31. and shifting perspectives.
  20. 33. Directly addressing an absent person, abstract idea, or inanimate object as if it could
  21. 35. NARRATIVE A storytelling structure in which the plot is told out of order, with gaps,
  22. 37. The repetition of final consonant sounds.
  23. 38. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way.
  24. 39. The representation through language of sense experience.
  25. 41. A work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner.
  26. 43. FLAW The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.
  27. 44. Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
  28. 45. Excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy.
  29. 48. NOVEL A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the
  30. 51. A protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine).
  31. 53. a common noun.
  32. 54. The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant.
  33. 55. CHARACTER A character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a
  34. 57. quality, or idea.
  35. 62. by the characters in the play.
  36. 65. A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
  37. 66. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.
  38. 67. dissimilar objects.