Shakespeare

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Across
  1. 2. A monologue spoken by a character who is alone on the stage. It reveals his/her inner thoughts and motives and so discloses what the character is really like.
  2. 4. A brief remark by a character, usually to the audience, unheard by other characters
  3. 6. fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
  4. 7. A comparison using “like” or “as”
  5. 10. A fatal flaw in the hero’s character
  6. 12. Two lines of verse of equal length that rhyme one after the other
  7. 15. Language that produces pictures in the imaginations of people reading or listening
  8. 16. Platform or area in a theatre on which the plays are performed to an audience
  9. 17. A ten syllable line of verse with five stresses di dum, di dum, di dum, di dum, di dum
  10. 18. A literary work which is primarily written in order to offer the audience a view into the tragic aspects of life
  11. 19. A part of an act in a play
Down
  1. 1. Unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter
  2. 3. Treating something as a human being; giving things human feelings and attributes
  3. 5. Verbal exchange between two or more characters on the stage
  4. 8. A comparison that suggests two dissimilar things are actually the same
  5. 9. Difference between the situation as known to the audience and as supposed by some or all the characters of the play
  6. 11. Verse in which the sense runs from one line to the next
  7. 13. A metrical unit of two syllables, the first unstressed, the second stressed
  8. 14. Used in order to capture and maintain the audience's interest. It is created when the audience is uncertain of what is going to happen next