Across
- 2. character in a play who speaks the prologue and comments ont he course of events
- 4. a joke explaining the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 8. rhyme of the terminal syllables of line poetry
- 10. a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
- 11. the act of talking while or as if alone
- 13. conversation between two or more people
- 15. a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents
- 18. a subject discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic
- 19. a fancy; whim; fanciful notion
- 21. a poem, properly expressed of a single, complete thought, or sentiment, of all lines, usually in iambic pentameter
- 22. not openly reciprocated or understood as such
- 23. to show or indicate beforehand
- 24. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it it not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
Down
- 1. a fatal event after an affair
- 3. a figure of speech that directly compares two things through some connective words
- 4. a preliminary dicourse, poem, or novel
- 5. the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its reference
- 6. irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grouped by the characters in the play
- 7. a figure by which a location produces an incongrouous, seemingly self-contradicory effect
- 9. a literary element that involves a struggle between two oposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist
- 12. a poem in the form of speech of narrative by an imagined person
- 14. melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his lover
- 16. a pair of successive lines of verses, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length
- 17. the pattern of rhymes used in a poem
- 20. unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in England dramatic, epic, and reflective verse
- 25. a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience
