Across
- 4. When a character reveals their private thoughts and/or feelings by talking to themselves.
- 6. A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience, but not by other characters on the stage.
- 8. A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
- 9. A conversational way of speaking, without a set rhythm or structure.
- 12. play on words; it is generally critical, disparaging, or salacious in nature, and its use is almost always derogatory
- 14. When a character says the opposite of what he or she means.
- 15. Speaking or writing with a set rhythm and structure.
Down
- 1. pairing two words together that are opposing and/or contradictory
- 2. The use of a comedic scene to interrupt a succession of intensely tragic dramatic moments.
- 3. When the audience knows something that the characters don't.
- 5. Two lines written in iambic pentameter, that end in the same sound, or rhyme.
- 7. a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable
- 10. a humorous play on words
- 11. A speech given by one character in the play.
- 13. A character that is used to contrast another character, usually the protagonist.