Across
- 3. A unit or division of a play, each of which is composed of one or more scenes.
- 6. The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided
- 7. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author
- 9. Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play
- 11. The time and place of a literary work that establish its context
- 12. An important and recurring theme, idea or object
- 14. The sorting out or unravelling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story
- 16. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse
- 19. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
- 21. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Down
- 1. A customary feature of a literary work
- 2. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
- 3. A character or force against which another character struggles
- 4. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story
- 5. Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play
- 8. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself
- 10. An imagined story, whether in prose, poetry, or drama
- 13. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action
- 15. What the play means as opposed to what happens
- 17. It refers to the order of the events that happen in a play.
- 18. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work
- 20. A speech by a single character without another character's response
