Across
- 4. part of a play performed by a group of actors or a single actor
- 6. figure of speech in which a locution produces an incongruous seemingly self-contradictory effect
- 7. a dramatic composition dealing with a serious or somber theme
- 9. struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist
- 11. not returned or rewarded
- 14. irony that is in a situation that is understood by the audience by not by the characters
- 15. pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length
- 16. character who may be similar or in parallel circumstances compared to the main character
- 18. the use of such metaphors as a literary characteristic, especially in poetry
- 19. utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to themselves
- 20. poetic form where a single character reveals itself and the dramatic situation
- 22. figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
- 23. rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry
- 24. verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
Down
- 1. a pattern of rhymes used in a poem
- 2. a play on words
- 3. a preface or introductory part of a poem or novel
- 5. conversation between two or more persons
- 8. figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
- 10. to show or indicate beforehand
- 12. a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with 5 feet or accents, each foot with an unaccented and accented syllable
- 13. formation of a word by the imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent
- 17. a melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress
- 21. a subject of discourse, meditation, composition, topic
- 25. remark by a character that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters
- 26. a poem with an iambic pentameter and rhymes