Romeo and Juliet Vocab
Across
- 4. (of a feeling, especially love) not returned or rewarded.
- 6. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
- 9. two characters have opposite personalities, causing a specific trait to stand out
- 13. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
- 15. the side of a pop single record regarded as the main release.
- 16. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
- 17. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 19. 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.
- 21. 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
- 22. excessive pride in oneself
- 24. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
- 25. verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
- 26. irony the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Down
- 1. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
- 2. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
- 3. denoting a sonnet of the kind used by the Italian poet Petrarch, with an octave rhyming
- 5. rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses
- 7. an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe
- 8. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one
- 10. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 11. a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company
- 12. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
- 14. a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long
- 18. give warning or promise of (something); foretell
- 20. a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes
- 23. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.