Across
- 3. a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character.
- 5. a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
- 8. an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can't hear
- 9. a character who has virtuous/sympathetic traits but meets suffering or defeat
- 11. the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
- 12. a character expresses thoughts/feelings aloud while alone on stage
- 13. inclusion of a humorous character scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work often to relieve tension.
Down
- 1. a literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.
- 2. Iambic pentameter is a rhythm structure used mostly in poetry that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five
- 4. one of the major characters in a drama movie novel or other fictional text.
- 6. a brief reference to a person place thing event or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
- 7. a play with an unhappy ending that concerns the downfall of the main character.
- 10. refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines