Across
- 7. A struggle between two opposing forces
- 8. A central idea conveyed by a text
- 9. A fatal error in judgment or weakness of a character that leads to their downfall
- 11. Contrast between appearance or expectation and reality.
- 13. Conversation between two or more people in a story, movie, play, etc.
- 14. A meter in which the normal line contains five stressed syllables, each preceded by an unstressed one.
Down
- 1. A light, mildly humorous scene or statement preceding a serious one.
- 2. A speech that a character makes while alone on stage to reveal their thoughts to the audience.
- 3. A remark that a character makes in an undertone to the audience or another character so others on stage do not hear.
- 4. Fixed patter of rhythm.
- 5. A force or character the main character often battles.
- 6. A person of importance in society who is the main character that comes to an unhappy end due to their tragic flaw.
- 10. Built on a series of causally related events that lead to catastrophe involving the hero and their antagonist.
- 12. Unrhyming iambic pentameter.