Across
- 3. An unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
- 4. A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
- 7. Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; each line of poetry contains 5 iambs that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- 9. The audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
- 11. A speech by one character in a play
- 13. Humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
- 17. Character who does not change much in the course of a story
- 19. A story written to be acted for an audience
Down
- 1. Character who changes as a result of the story’s events
- 2. A group who says things at the same time
- 4. A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 5. A combination of contradictory terms
- 6. Event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
- 8. A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
- 10. Character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
- 12. Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
- 14. Words 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
- 15. Direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
- 16. A writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
- 18. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene