Across
- 5. the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
- 6. a story written to be acted for an audience
- 7. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
- 9. a speech by one character in a play
Down
- 1. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
- 2. a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
- 3. fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes (Shakespearean-3 four-line units or quatrains, followed by a concluding two-line unit, or couplet; ababcdcd efef gg)
- 4. a play, novel, or other narratives that depicts severe and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
- 7. direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken,in ordinary use
- 8. a group who says things at the same time anachronism event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
