Romeo and Juliet Vocab

4. Verse verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
7. a conflict is between two opposing forces, whether it be between two people or some other force. There are two types of forces, internal and external.
9. a one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such
11. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
12. a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect
13. a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person
14. denoting a sonnet of the kind used by the Italian poet Petrarch
16. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
18. an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
19. a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
21. when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
23. an attitude that shows you have too high an opinion of your own abilities or importance.
25. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

1. a certain kind of line of poetry, and has to do with the number of syllables in the line and the emphasis placed on those syllables
2. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
3. 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.
5. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
6. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
8. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
10. 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
13. the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
15. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
17. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
20. be a warning or indication of (a future event).
22. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
24. a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company.