Across
- 3. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 5. The humorous use of a word or phrase.
- 7. Excessive pride in oneself.
- 9. A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
- 11. A long speech by one actor in a play or movie.
- 12. To say the same thing at the same time.
- 14. Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
- 18. Melodramatic; self consciously suffering
- 21. To one side; out of the way.
- 23. A verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
- 25. when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
- 26. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
- 27. A separate introductory section of a library or musical work.
Down
- 1. Two lines of a verse that form a unit.
- 2. Relating to drama or the performance or study of drama.
- 4. A poem of fourteen lines and also having ten syllables per line.
- 6. Warning or indication of a future event.
- 8. An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as serious accident, crime or national catastrophe.
- 10. A line of verse with five metrical feet.
- 13. Not wanted love.
- 15. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
- 16. The expression of ones meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
- 17. A subject of a talk.
- 19. A serious disagreement.
- 20. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
- 22. An act of speaking ones thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers.
- 24. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.