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Across 2. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. 6. Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play. 8. 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. 10. A character or force against which another character struggles 12. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action. 15. A speech by a single character without another character's response. 19. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. 21. A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. 22. The conversation of characters in a literary work. 26. The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story. 27. A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. 28. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. 29. The main character of a literary work 30. comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as 31. The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided.

Down 1. The selection of words in a literary work. 2. figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. 3. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. 4. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work 5. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. 7. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. 9. The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. 11. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. 13. The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. 14. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. 16. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. 17. A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. 18. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose, as in "I rose and told him of my woe." 20. A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. 21. The purging of the feelings of pity and fear that, according to Aristotle, occur in the audience of tragic drama. 23. The action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the denouement or falling action of a play. 24. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better. 25. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.