Drama Terms Senior English Crossword
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
 
 
Down: 1) verbal fencing, punning, or mock bickering. Shakespeare’s plays are known for this.3) a speech in which an actor, usually alone on stage, speaks the inner thoughts of his/her character aloud.4) the words or action at which an actor is expected to deliver a line or perform another action. Also, a signal from the stage manager to the cast, stage crew, props manager, or lighting technician that a predetermined action—an entrance, sound effect, change in the set or lighting—is required.5) dynamic use of opposites, such as movement/stillness, sound/silence, and light/darkness.7) two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.9) A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another. The stanzas of Gertrude Schnackenberg's "Signs" are regular; those of Rita Dove's "Canary" are irregular.12) how an actor uses body, voice, and thought to develop and portray a character.15) the dialogue of a play; the words actors say in performance.18) discrepancy between what is said and what is meant19) one who by strong contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another and, sometimes, prevents someone or something from being successful.20) a person of basically good character who passes from happiness to misery because of a character flaw or error in judgment.21)  a protagonist who does not have the heroic qualities of the traditional protagonist. Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is an example.27) stage direction; to leave the stage. Across: 2) the atmosphere created by unresolved, disquieting, or inharmonious situations that human beings feel compelled to address; the state of anxiety the audience feels because of a threat to a character in a play.6) in a nonlinear plot, to go back in time to a previous event8) The theater where Shakespeare's plays were performed10) A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. For example, an iamb is represented by an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. Frost's line "Whose woods these are I think I know" contains four iambs, and is thus an iambic _____.11) When the audience perceives something that a character does not know.13) a discrepancy between expected results and the actual results.14) The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. 16) the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract concepts.17) an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". 20) a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy.22) the point of greatest intensity in a series or progression of events in a play, often forming the turning point of the plot and leading to some kind of resolution.23) a break in the tension of a tragedy provided by a comic character, a comic episode, or even a comic line.24) a character speaks to the audience (or another character). By convention, the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage.25) unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, a rhythm pattern with five units or feet, each of which has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.26) a long speech made by one actor; a _______may be delivered alone or in the presence of others.28) a speech which introduces a play.29) An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to-DAY. 30) tools, weapons, or luggage that are carried on stage by an individual actor.
 

 

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