Across
- 1. that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage
- 2. play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
- 6. story written to be acted for an audience.
- 10. unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
- 12. irony-the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
- 14. (“unrhymed”-no rhyme at the end of lines) Verse-poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (“pent”=5; “meter”=measure); each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
- 16. lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
- 17. character-character who does not change much in the course of a story.
- 18. group who says things at the same time
Down
- 1. or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
- 3. character-character who changes as a result of the story’s events
- 4. short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
- 5. play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 7. consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
- 8. unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
- 9. who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way.
- 11. irony-a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
- 13. speech by one character in a play.
- 15. relief-humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
