Across
- 1. a group of performers who comment on the main action, typically speaking and moving together.
- 4. to one side; out of the way.
- 6. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
- 7. verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
- 10. Petrarch was a fourteenth-century Italian poet whose sonnets were all the rage in Renaissance England
- 12. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
- 13. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
- 14. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
- 15. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 16. Unrequited love or one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such
- 18. an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature
- 21. a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person
- 22. a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor.
- 24. figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Down
- 2. figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
- 3. commonly used metrical line in traditional verse and verse drama. The term describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line
- 5. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
- 6. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
- 8. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
- 9. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
- 11. rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses
- 17. two characters have opposite personalities, causing a specific trait to stand out
- 19. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is name
- 20. be a warning or indication of (a future event).
- 21. irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
- 23. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
