Across
- 3. a combination of contradictory terms
- 4. character who changes as a result of the sotry's events
- 6. character who is used as a contrast to another character
- 8. the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
- 10. a speech by one character in a play
- 14. a group who says things at the same time
- 16. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
- 17. character character who does not change much in the course of a story
- 19. direct, unadormed for of language, written or spoke, in ordinary use
- 20. poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; each line of poerty contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Down
- 1. a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completly different
- 2. a play on multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 5. words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage
- 7. A story wirtten to be acted by an audience
- 9. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
- 11. two consecutivelines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
- 12. a play or novel that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy ending
- 13. fourteen-line poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
- 15. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
- 18. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stade alone expreses his or her thoughts aloud
