Across
- 2. A story written to be acted for an audience.
- 6. A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
- 8. Character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way.
- 9. 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; abab cdcd efef gg).
- 11. Event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
- 12. irony A writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
- 13. An unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
Down
- 1. A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
- 3. A combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp).
- 4. A speech by one character in a play.
- 5. Direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
- 7. A group who says things at the same time
- 10. irony The audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know