Across
- 2. a speech directed to the audience; the on-stage characters don't hear it
- 3. the ordinary form of spoken or written language (not poetry)
- 4. the reader or audience knows something that the on-stage characters do not
- 6. the number of metrical feet (or beats) per line of iambic pentameter
- 9. an unexplained reference to Greek or Roman mythology
- 12. Latin for "seize the day"
- 14. a play on words, wherein a word conveys two meanings at once
Down
- 1. just retribution; when the punishment fits the crime
- 5. two successive lines of poetry that rhyme; often at the end of a scene
- 7. a comic misuse of words
- 8. unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
- 10. a speech by a character alone on stage
- 11. one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- 13. a name that suggests a person's role, personality, or character