Romeo and Juliet Terms

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Across
  1. 5. a play on words
  2. 6. A character speaks aloud to himself
  3. 13. a long, uninterrupted speech spoken in the presence of others
  4. 14. a main idea, subject of text or topic of discussion
  5. 16. a character who changes as a result of his motives or situation
  6. 17. the use of hints or clues for later events in the plot
  7. 19. words having a meaning that is different than its literal interpretation
  8. 21. A figure of speech where seemingly contradictory terms are combined side by side
  9. 22. A state of anxious uncertainty about what may happen
  10. 24. words spoken by a character not intended to be heard by others
  11. 25. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme at the end of the poem
  12. 26. placing two very different characters next to each other to highlight their personalities
  13. 27. a seemingly contradictory statement that is perhaps true
Down
  1. 1. the explaining of background information
  2. 2. a poetic foot of one unstressed and one stressed syllable
  3. 3. an implied or indirect reference to something
  4. 4. When the audience knows more than a character in the play
  5. 7. 4 lines that rhyme at every other line
  6. 8. a line of poetry that contains 10 syllables, 5 stressed
  7. 9. the main characters final attempt to resolve the conflict
  8. 10. a 14 line poem that rhymes
  9. 11. a line of poetry written in un-rhyming iambic pentameter
  10. 12. reason a character has for acting in a particular way
  11. 15. a character delivers a memorized, formal speech
  12. 16. the plot structure of a dramatic work
  13. 18. "out of date" language
  14. 20. an adjective or phrase of descriptive characteristics
  15. 23. a figure of speech comparing things using "like" or "as"
  16. 28. a long play is divided into these "chapters"