Across
- 2. a speech by one character in a play
- 3. unrhymed iambic pentameter (“pent”=5; “meter”=measure); each line of
- 4. fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter
- 5. a group who says things at the same time
- 9. character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others
- 15. contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed
- 16. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
- 20. expresses his or her thoughts aloud
- 21. a story written to be acted for an audience
- 22. of the plot
- 24. efef gg)
- 26. character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets
- 27. but have different meanings
- 28. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal
- 31. in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
- 32. in a play or story does not know
- 33. (“unrhymed”-no rhyme at the end of lines) Verse-poetry written
Down
- 1. unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage
- 6. character character who does not change much in the course of a
- 7. irony a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something
- 8. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief
- 10. a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important
- 11. a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp)
- 12. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound
- 13. different
- 14. irony the audience or reader knows something important that a
- 16. words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to
- 17. that has one of several rhyme schemes (Shakespearean-3 four-line
- 18. followed by a stressed syllable
- 19. relief humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
- 23. the qualities of 2 characters this way
- 25. character character who changes as a result of the story’s events
- 29. or quatrains, followed by a concluding two-line unit, or couplet;
- 30. direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use