Across
- 5. Words in brackets or parentheses that tell actors how to move and speak. (2 words)
- 10. When an author writes someone else’s complete life story.
- 11. This prefix means “small.”
- 12. A play is performed on one of these.
- 14. This prefix means “self.”
- 15. A play that ends unhappily.
- 16. This part of speech is used to join phrases and clauses (FANBOYS).
- 18. This prefix means “around.”
- 20. This prefix means “ten.”
- 21. This prefix means “over.”
- 24. This prefix means “between.”
- 27. This prefix means “after.”
- 28. A theme or element that appears in many different plays and stories, like a haunted forest, love at first sight, or a wicked witch.
- 30. This part of speech is used to replace a noun.
- 31. This punctuation is used to connect two independent clauses when there is not a conjunction present.
- 32. A character used to contrast another character as an opposite.
- 33. This is used to transform a bare stage into a particular place and time.
- 34. Everything that is part of a play but not part of the script.
- 36. This type of clause can stand alone as a complete sentence.
- 38. A long speech by a character alone on stage.
- 39. This part of speech is used to describe a verb.
Down
- 1. The main character in a tragedy. (2 words)
- 2. When someone writes about a specific period in their life.
- 3. You do this to titles of movies, books, albums, etc. when you are writing them by hand.
- 4. Titles of poems, short stories, songs, etc. go in these. (two words)
- 6. This punctuation is used to connect a list to an independent clause that comes before it.
- 7. This punctuation is used to show ownership or possession.
- 8. This prefix means “alongside.”
- 9. This part of speech is used to show an emotion.
- 13. This prefix means “different.”
- 17. This prefix means “too little.”
- 19. This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
- 22. This part of speech shows the location of a noun or pronoun before it to another word that follows it.
- 23. This prefix means “back.”
- 25. A long speech by one character to one or more other characters onstage.
- 26. The tragic hero’s imperfection that leads to their demise. (2 words)
- 28. When an author writes their own complete life story.
- 29. This prefix means “distance.”
- 31. This prefix means “above.”
- 35. This prefix means “all.”
- 37. This prefix means “heat.”
- 39. A brief comment meant to only be heard by the audience.
