Elements and Literary Terms in Romeo and Juliet
Across
- 2. a reference to something outside the text/story
- 3. enemy of the Mantagues
- 7. word play results in this
- 11. in love with Rosaline
- 14. Juliet's age
- 15. He wrote 38 plays and 150 sonnets
- 16. log uninterrupted speech by a single character
- 17. a character that sets up a contrast to another character like Benvolio and TYbalt
- 18. Juliet's cousin
- 19. These people believed a person's life is determined by the placement of the stars at birth
- 22. a figure of speech that exaggerates to emphasize something
Down
- 1. enemy of the Capulets
- 4. Juliet's mother
- 5. 2 lines of poetry or 2 lines of dialogue in a play
- 6. when the audience knows more about the story than the characters on the stage
- 8. The theater Shakespeare built
- 9. He wants to marry Juliet
- 10. 14 lines of poetry as in the prologue
- 12. "turn tears to fire," "think a swan a crow"
- 13. applying human qualities to non-human things
- 20. a comparison using like or as
- 21. "loving hate," "feather of lead," "sweet sorrow"