Romeo and Juliet Vocab
Across
- 5. be a warning or indication of (a future event)
- 7. two characters have opposite personalities, causing a specific trait to stand out
- 9. (in ancient Greek tragedy) a group of performers who comment on the main action, typically speaking and moving together
- 11. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 12. a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short
- 14. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one
- 15. a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes
- 19. not reciprocated or returned in kind
- 21. an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe
- 22. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic
- 23. rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses
- 24. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
- 25. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
Down
- 1. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play
- 2. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
- 3. the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect
- 4. which had become a cliché by the time Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet
- 6. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 7. a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events
- 8. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
- 10. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
- 13. a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor
- 16. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work
- 17. a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play
- 18. verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
- 20. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie