Across
- 1. A literary device to represent something else (a larger idea) in a text
- 4. Five units of stressed and unstressed syllables in one line
- 6. When the audience knows something the character does not know
- 7. A figure of speech containing words that seem to contradict each other
- 8. A pattern of rhyme at the end of the stanza in poetry or verse
- 11. Not in a good or strong position; likely to collapse
- 12. An uneasy feeling a reader gets when they don't know what's going to happen next (and they want to find out!)
- 14. A repeated element that has meaning and connection to a text's theme
- 16. A 14 line poem, written in iambic pentameter
Down
- 2. A long speech by one actor (similar to a soliloquy, but a monologue is always a long speech)
- 3. Being well-known for something cruel, evil, or notoriously bad
- 5. Lovers whose fate was doomed from the beginning
- 9. Countless, or a great number
- 10. Hardworking;diligent
- 13. A character speaking one's thoughts aloud to oneself (alone, regardless of who hears)
- 15. A main idea that recurs throughout literature to share a message or teach a lesson