Romeo and Juliet Vocab

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Across
  1. 6. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes in English typically having ten syllables per line
  2. 10. a line of verse with five metrical feet each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable for example Two households both alike in dignity.
  3. 14. a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
  4. 16. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
  5. 18. the use of rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry or an example of this.
  6. 19. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
  7. 21. a situation or the irony arising from a situation, in which the audience has a fuller knowledge of what is happening in a drama than a character does.
  8. 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.
  9. 25. 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.
  10. 26. a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company.
Down
  1. 1. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
  2. 2. verse without rhyme especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
  3. 3. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
  4. 4. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
  5. 5. 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.
  6. 7. a character who highlights or brings out the personality traits of another character in a play because of contrasting characteristics.
  7. 8. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers especially by a character in a play
  8. 9. onesided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved.
  9. 11. denoting a sonnet of the kind used by the Italian poet Petrarch with an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet typically rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde.
  10. 12. 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. 13. the subject of a talk a piece of writing a person's thoughts or an exhibition a topic.
  12. 15. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
  13. 17. two lines of verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
  14. 20. be a warning or indication of a future event.
  15. 22. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
  16. 23. a fanciful expression in writing or speech an elaborate metaphor.