Across
- 2. a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
- 5. a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
- 6. event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
- 9. an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
- 10. a story written to be acted for an audience
Down
- 1. a combination of contradictory terms
- 3. humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
- 4. a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 7. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- 8. poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable