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