Across
- 2. conversation between two or more people or characters
- 4. a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage; the audience's insight to a character's internal thoughts
- 7. a two line stanza that rhymes
- 9. when the reader or audience is aware of something that a character is not
- 11. the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of the tragedy
- 12. a form of poetry consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
- 14. a line in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience, but unheard by the other characters in the play
- 16. a long speech made by one performer or one person in a group on stage
Down
- 1. a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama; a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable
- 3. the inclusion of a humorous character or scene to contrast with the tragic elements of a work, thereby intensifying the next tragic event
- 5. a four line stanza
- 6. a humorous play on words
- 8. an exciting, emotional, or unexpected story written to be performed by actors
- 10. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem
- 13. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the protagonist
- 15. the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem