Across
- 3. a paradoxical utterance that conjoins two terms that in ordinary usage are opposites
- 5. a character who has only few character traits and does not develop or change during the play
- 7. a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines
- 8. animals, ideas, abstractions or inanimate objects are endowed with human characteristics
- 10. an effect of literary (‘poetic’) texts: ‘deviations’ from ordinary language use (foregrounded properties/artistic devices) disrupt the modes of everyday perception and renew the reader’s capacity for fresh sensation
- 14. the same sound is repeated at the beginning of several words in words that are in close proximity
- 15. part of the terminology introduced by the critic Gérard Genette to denote a narrator who tells his or her own story
- 16. involves a situation in a play in which the audience or reader shares with the author knowledge of present or future circumstances of which a character is ignorant
- 17. the time it takes to tell the story
- 20. the direct presentation or reflection of the world in art
- 21. the way events are causally and logically connected
Down
- 1. the chronological sequence of events and actions involving characters
- 2. a narrator with a distinct personality who makes his or her opinion known
- 4. a type of fiction (usually a novel) which takes the writing process as its topic
- 5. the term used by the critic Franz Stanzel to denote a narrator who is also a character in the story and refers to him- or herself using the first person pronoun
- 6. a word or phrase in a sentence is omitted though implied by the context
- 9. a form of monologue, where no other person is present on stage beside the speaker, usually reveals the speaker’s thoughts or feelings
- 11. the single unit of stress and non-stress in any given metre
- 12. non-ryhming iambic pentameter
- 13. an aspect of narration which deals with the question ‘who sees’, ‘whose perspective is adopted?’
- 18. in Gustav Freytag’s terminology the final stage of development in a tragedy usually involving the death of the protagonist
- 19. a figure of contiguity, the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part: ‘pars pro toto’ or ‘totum pro parte’
