Across
- 2. Figure of speech involving the comparison of 1 thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
- 4. Be warning or indication of a future event
- 7. Not returned or rewarded feeling of love
- 8. A group of performers who comment on the main action, typically speaking and moving together
- 10. Subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition ; a topic
- 12. Verse without rhyme ; especially that which uses iambic pentameter
- 13. A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertanetly reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events
- 14. Ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
- 17. Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 18. Separate introductiory section of a literary or musical work
- 21. 2 lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
- 22. A character who may be similar or in parallel circumstances compared to the main character of the story
- 24. Joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 25. Poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having 10 syllables per line
Down
- 1. Conversation between 2 or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
- 3. Line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each consisting of 1 short syllable followed by 1 long syllable
- 5. Melodramatic, self-conciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress
- 6. A fanciful expression in writing or speech ; an eleborate metaphor
- 9. Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to any object or action to which it is not literally applicable
- 11. Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunctions
- 13. The full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character
- 15. Act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play
- 16. Serious disagreement or arguement, typically a protracted one
- 19. When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
- 20. An event causing great suffereing, distruction, and distress, such as a serious accident
- 23. 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