Across
- 5. A speech delivered by a single character to other characters or the audience
- 7. A long speech in a play where a character speaks their thoughts aloud to themselves while alone on stage, revealing their inner feelings
- 9. Notes included in a play to describe how a character should move or how they should sound when they speak
- 11. These types of plays often end in the deaths of the main character(s)
- 12. A 14-line poem that follows the rhyme pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
- 15. Example: Teddy tries to take a ticket
Down
- 1. Where a character speaks directly to the audience, and their words are not heard by other characters on stage
- 2. Poetic style that doesn't rhyme but uses iambic pentameter.
- 3. Reference to a well-known person, place, event, or another literary work
- 4. A character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to another
- 6. Giving hints about events that are going to happen
- 8. Example: the wind whispered secrets through the trees
- 9. The smaller units of an act that focuses on specific moments and interactions, often occurring in one place at one time.
- 10. Larger units in a play, kind of like chapters in a book
- 13. Example: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this and this gives life to thee
- 14. a story written in script format that is meant to be performed by actors