Across
- 1. a complex personality; he or she is often portrayed as a conflicted and contradictory person.
- 3. gives the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense.
- 6. a group of characters who comment on the action of a play without participating in it.
- 10. irony in which an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience.
- 11. a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character.
- 13. a series of events, involving a conflict.
- 14. instructions for performing a play and the descriptions of settings, characters, and actions.
- 15. a speech meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. Only the audience can hear the private thoughts of the characters.
- 17. the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense.
- 20. a type of drama in which the characters experience reversal of fortune usually for the worse. Suffering awaits many characters.
- 21. lengthy speech that one character addresses to others on stage.
- 23. a person who changes over time, usually as a result of resolving a central conflict or facing a major crisis.
- 25. a segment of an Act, used to indicate a change in time or location
- 26. the author of a play
- 27. a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement.
- 28. irony in which a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader/audience knows to be true.
Down
- 2. the people who perform
- 4. where a play takes place
- 5. performed by actors for an audience
- 7. this literary personality is notable for one kind of personality trait or characteristic.
- 8. combines two words of contrasting meanings to convey a single thought or idea (big baby/living dead)
- 9. the words actors say
- 12. words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, but not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play.
- 13. articles or objects that appear on stage during a play
- 16. a literary genre and a type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having a cheerful ending.
- 17. physical representation of the play's setting (location and time period)
- 18. character someone who does not change over time; his or her personality does not transform or evolve.
- 19. purpose is to give the spectator a moment of “relief ” with a light-hearted scene, after a succession of intensely tragic dramatic moments
- 22. a major division in a play which can be subdivided into scenes
- 24. irony in which words used to suggest the opposite of what is meant.
- 26. a play on words that produces a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words that have different meanings. round character