Across
- 2. short comment or speech that a character delivers to the audience or to himself, while the other actors can't listen
- 3. an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
- 5. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one
- 8. the order pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or verse
- 11. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work
- 12. between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
- 15. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
- 16. a poem in the form of speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspect of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events
- 17. two lines of a verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
- 18. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
- 19. melodramatic, self consciously suffering and has given himself up to power of his mistress
- 21. the expression of one's meaning by using language that usually signifies the other, typically for humorous or emphatic effect
- 22. kind of metaphor that compare two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way
- 23. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 24. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
Down
- 1. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
- 4. when a poem has line ending with words that sounds the same
- 6. be a warning or indication of a future event
- 7. not returned or rewarded.
- 9. a group of people who speak or sing unison a given part or composition in drama or poetry recitation
- 10. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which object or action to which is not literally applicable
- 11. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or fact that there are words that sounds alike but have different meanings
- 13. a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable
- 14. verse without rhyme, especially that uses iambic pentameter
- 16. a character who contrast with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
- 20. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction