Across
- 2. a character speaks to him or herself, revealing thoughts, feelings secrets, or plans the the audience
- 3. poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines in iambic pentameter
- 5. an extended speech by one person
- 6. a personality trait of a main character that leads to his or her downfall
- 9. written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people
- 11. a central, unifying idea
- 14. literary device used in plays and novels to introduce light entertainment between tragic scenes
- 15. a symbolic image or idea that appears frequently in a story
Down
- 1. major characters in a story, who is complex, layered, and multidimensional
- 4. relatively uncomplicated characters with little to no complex emotions, motivations, or personality.
- 7. a speech or comment that a character delivers directly to an audience
- 8. a brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature
- 10. rhythm structure that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five
- 12. the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters
- 13. characters with traits opposite to another character's traits