Literary Terms for Drama

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