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Drama: a work of literature meant to be performed for an audience by actors
Playwright: the author of a play, or drama
Conflict: when the character is opposed by another character or force
Complications: additional problems to the conflict
Climax: the moment of greatest emotional intensity
Resolution: the final part of the play; the conflict is resolved
Characters in Crisis: every play centres on a crisis, a situation of danger or difficulty that places at risk something of great value to the characters: life, love, family pride, anything that is precious to them
Change: changes come about as the characters work out their conflicts
Irony: is a contrast between expectation and reality
Dramatic Irony: occurs when the people watching a play know something that characters on stage do not know, including, sometimes, what awaits them in the future
The Shock of Recognition: a play succeeds when we share the same feelings of the characters on stage
Flashbacks: an interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time
Act: one of the major divisions of a play or drama
Scene: a subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuos
Stage Directions: they tell the actors how to read their lines as well as what actions to perform or what gestures to make
Stage Design: how the stage will look and will be represented
Characters: one who performs or appears on a play
Script: the manuscript or written document of a play
Speculating: to engage in thought or reflection; to meditate
Inference: to hint; to guess; imply or suggest
Dialogue: conversations between two or more characters
Idioms: regional speech or dialect
Symbol: a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well
Tone: the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience
Mood: feeling or atmosphere of a work of literature
Theme: the general idea or insight about life that a work literature reveals
Overstatement: exaggeration that is used for effect
Paraphrasing: to restate in your own words
Drama
Across:3. | every play centres on a crisis, a situation of danger or difficulty that places at risk something of great value to the characters: life, love, family pride, anything that is precious to them | 7. | exaggeration that is used for effect | 9. | conversations between two or more characters | 10. | a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well | 12. | one who performs or appears on a play | 14. | the manuscript or written document of a play | 15. | a subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuos | 16. | the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience | 17. | regional speech or dialect | 18. | feeling or atmosphere of a work of literature | 20. | when the character is opposed by another character or force | 21. | the final part of the play; the conflict is resolved | 22. | an interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time | 23. | is a contrast between expectation and reality | 25. | a play succeeds when we share the same feelings of the characters on stage | 26. | the moment of greatest emotional intensity |
| | Down:1. | occurs when the people watching a play know something that characters on stage do not know, including, sometimes, what awaits them in the future | 2. | to restate in your own words | 4. | to engage in thought or reflection; to meditate | 5. | they tell the actors how to read their lines as well as what actions to perform or what gestures to make | 6. | the author of a play, or drama | 8. | additional problems to the conflict | 11. | the general idea or insight about life that a work literature reveals | 13. | one of the major divisions of a play or drama | 14. | how the stage will look and will be represented | 19. | to hint; to guess; imply or suggest | 20. | changes come about as the characters work out their conflicts | 24. | a work of literature meant to be performed for an audience by actors |
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Drama
Across:3. | every play centres on a crisis, a situation of danger or difficulty that places at risk something of great value to the characters: life, love, family pride, anything that is precious to them | 7. | exaggeration that is used for effect | 9. | conversations between two or more characters | 10. | a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well | 12. | one who performs or appears on a play | 14. | the manuscript or written document of a play | 15. | a subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuos | 16. | the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience | 17. | regional speech or dialect | 18. | feeling or atmosphere of a work of literature | 20. | when the character is opposed by another character or force | 21. | the final part of the play; the conflict is resolved | 22. | an interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time | 23. | is a contrast between expectation and reality | 25. | a play succeeds when we share the same feelings of the characters on stage | 26. | the moment of greatest emotional intensity |
| | Down:1. | occurs when the people watching a play know something that characters on stage do not know, including, sometimes, what awaits them in the future | 2. | to restate in your own words | 4. | to engage in thought or reflection; to meditate | 5. | they tell the actors how to read their lines as well as what actions to perform or what gestures to make | 6. | the author of a play, or drama | 8. | additional problems to the conflict | 11. | the general idea or insight about life that a work literature reveals | 13. | one of the major divisions of a play or drama | 14. | how the stage will look and will be represented | 19. | to hint; to guess; imply or suggest | 20. | changes come about as the characters work out their conflicts | 24. | a work of literature meant to be performed for an audience by actors |
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