Literary Terms 4 Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 1. a drama exciting terror or pity for a character or group of characters on stage
  2. 3. a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected
  3. 4. Used in plays and novels to introduce light entertainment between tragic scenes. It is often used in the shape of a humorous incident, a funny incident, a tricky remark or a laughing commentary
  4. 7. A set of 4 lines of poetry
  5. 8. a subsidiary, subordinate, or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
  6. 9. A type of literature that depicts country life in idyllic, idealized terms
  7. 10. the spectacle a play presents in performance, including the position of actors on stage, the scenic background, the props and costumes, and the lighting and sound effects
  8. 12. articles or objects that appear on stage during a play
  9. 13. A set of 8 lines of poetry
  10. 15. Opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces
  11. 18. The physical movement of a character during a play. Used to reveal character and may include facial expressions as well as movements of other parts of an actor's body
  12. 20. A dramatic speech by a single actor; Other characters can hear the speech
  13. 22. the imaginary wall of the box theater setting, supposedly removed to allow the audience to better understand the action
  14. 24. a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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  1. 2. the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in two or more words that appear close together
  2. 5. The use of an incorrect word in place of a similar-sounding word, which results in a nonsensical and humorous expression
  3. 6. When the audience knows something some or all the characters don’t — so the characters might get an unexpected outcome, but for the audience it’s not unexpected at all
  4. 8. A type of play generally full of fun, irony and wordplay. They also abound in disguises and mistaken identities, with very convoluted plots that are difficult to follow with contrived endings
  5. 11. A dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention, the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage
  6. 14. A reference to a particular event or character in classical works of literature, such as ancient Roman or Greek works or the Bible
  7. 16. A speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object
  8. 17. a humorous play on words
  9. 19. an arbitrary object that has acquired a conventional significance; the act of creating that significance
  10. 21. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
  11. 23. a line or speech spoken by an actor to another actor on stage; not intended for others on stage