drama terms crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. / occurs when a character speaks his or her private thoughts aloud.
  2. 6. / a long speech given by a character in a story, movie, play, etc., or by a performer (such as a comedian).
  3. 8. / the writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like.
  4. 14. / physical items an actor interacts with on stage.
  5. 16. / is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.
  6. 17. / has serious issues, comic relief, intention to move the audience emotionally, a tragic hero, and sorrowful or disastrous ending.
  7. 19. / is a type of meter, or stress pattern, found within a line of verse.
  8. 21. / a person, typically a man, who is admired for courage or noble qualities.
  9. 22. / the non-existent wall between the audience and the stage that allows the audience to see into the living spaces and lives of the characters on stage.
Down
  1. 1. / notes incorporated in a play or script to indicate entrances and exits, movement, style of delivery, details of location, scenery and effects.
  2. 2. / a person who has little status in society.
  3. 3. / the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
  4. 4. / is drama that has a humorous atmosphere, some serious events, funny moments, and a happy ending.
  5. 7. / the person or thing responsible for specified trouble, harm, or damage.
  6. 9. / are basic plots that appear again and again.
  7. 10. / a character that is a direct opposite or in contrast to another (usually the protagonist) character.
  8. 11. / a literary character who makes errors in judgment, usually in his or her actions, that inevitably leads to his or her own demise (death).
  9. 12. / reader or audience knows something character does not.
  10. 13. / the technique the writer uses to develop characters such as physical descriptions of the character, the character’s speech, thoughts or actions, and the way other characters act toward him or her.
  11. 15. / a play on words, usually relying on different meanings of the same word.
  12. 18. / a remark spoken in an undertone by a character which the other characters do not hear.
  13. 20. / a humorous scene, incident, or speech that is included in a serious drama to break tension and allow the audience to prepare emotionally for events to come.