Across
- 6. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes in English typically having ten syllables per line
- 10. a line of verse with five metrical feet each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable for example Two households both alike in dignity.
- 14. a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
- 16. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
- 18. the use of rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry or an example of this.
- 19. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
- 21. a situation or the irony arising from a situation, in which the audience has a fuller knowledge of what is happening in a drama than a character does.
- 24. 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.
- 25. a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
- 26. a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company.
Down
- 1. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
- 2. verse without rhyme especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
- 3. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
- 4. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
- 5. a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.
- 7. a character who highlights or brings out the personality traits of another character in a play because of contrasting characteristics.
- 8. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers especially by a character in a play
- 9. onesided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved.
- 11. denoting a sonnet of the kind used by the Italian poet Petrarch with an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet typically rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde.
- 12. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 13. the subject of a talk a piece of writing a person's thoughts or an exhibition a topic.
- 15. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
- 17. two lines of verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
- 20. be a warning or indication of a future event.
- 22. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
- 23. a fanciful expression in writing or speech an elaborate metaphor.