Across
- 3. verse Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameters
- 5. Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play
- 7. language words or phrases that change the feel of a sentence through evoking a particular emotional reaction from the reader
- 8. Aspects of a play that draw attention to its nature as drama or theatre, or to the circumstances of its performance
- 9. Practice or device which is accepted as a necessary, useful, or given feature of a genre, such as a soliloquy or epithet
- 11. A character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
- 12. A character or force against which another character struggles
- 13. Final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved
- 15. The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
- 16. substitution Metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables, wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed as given in this line
- 19. Use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
- 20. A type of feeling that readers get from a narrative based on details such as settings, background etc.
- 21. Turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
- 23. Indirect or passing reference
- 24. A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage
Down
- 1. words Associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning
- 2. irony Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play
- 4. The means by which writers present and reveal characters
- 5. Physical movement of characters
- 6. The action of repeating something that has already been said or written
- 10. Implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work
- 14. Purging of the feelings of pity and fear that occurs in the audience of tragic drama
- 16. Elevation of taste and pursuit of beauty as chief principles in art and in life
- 17. pentameter Line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
- 18. knowledge Background information about the text e.g. social, historical, personal
- 22. Conversation of characters in a literary work