Across
- 3. - an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present
- 6. - the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences
- 9. - Between two opposing forces whether it be two people or some other force.
- 12. - a common meter in poetry consisting of an un-rhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
- 16. - A type of poetic theme ( most well-known for its subject matter of ideal love)
- 18. - to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure
- 19. - a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous,seemingly self-contradictory effect
- 22. - love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved
- 23. - An elaborate or unusual comparison--especially one using unlikely metaphors, simile, hyperbole, and contradiction.
- 25. - a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought,idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines
- 26. - a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse,poem, or novel.
Down
- 1. - a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair
- 2. - In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
- 4. - the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- 5. - A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.
- 7. - a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation.
- 8. - irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and misunderstood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
- 10. - a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
- 11. - a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
- 13. - the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning
- 14. - a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition
- 15. - rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry.
- 17. - a quick remark made by a character in a play which is said to the audience
- 20. - conversation between two or more persons.
- 21. - poetry that has a fixed rhythm but does not rhyme
- 24. - Two lines--the second line immediately following the first