Across
- 3. a symbolic image or idea that appears frequently in a story. Motifs can be symbols, sounds, actions, ideas, or words.
- 4. relief a relief from the emotional tension especially of a drama that is provided by the interposition of a comic episode or element.
- 6. branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.
- 7. A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar
- 10. person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. This person is fated by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering.
- 11. inherent defect or shortcoming in the hero of a tragedy, who is in other respects a superior being favoured by fortune.
Down
- 1. an extended speech by one person. It is a speech given by a single character in a story.
- 2. the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected.
- 5. a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character
- 8. nuance in literature refers to subtle differences in word meaning and usage that result in different shades of meaning
- 9. irony Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don't.
