Across
- 6. Intelligently analytical and
- 8. designed or intended to teach
- 9. Showing consideration or understanding (in a sympathetic way)
- 10. Psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character
- 11. Depressed; moody
- 12. Prepared to obey others unquestioningly
- 13. To guess without proper evidence
- 16. A central, unifying idea or message explored throughout a work
- 17. Straying from the right or normal way
- 19. Lasting through the year or many years;
- 20. To accept something reluctantly
- 22. To rest or relax
- 24. A pivotal point in the plot of a story, especially in classical tragedies
Down
- 1. Exercising power in a cruel or oppressive way
- 2. The quality or state of being average
- 3. Secret; sneaky
- 4. The basic elements of a subject
- 5. A person or thing that is the perfect example of a particular quality or type
- 7. The quality of being wary and unwilling
- 14. Shakespeare's use of adding in humor to break up the tension in a tragedy
- 15. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing
- 18. Inclined to start quarrels or wars
- 19. To obtain (something), especially with care or effort
- 21. A struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character
- 23. Proper and dignified behavior
