Romeo and Juliet Vocab
Across
- 2. a group of performers who comment on the main action, typically speaking and moving together.
- 7. was a fourteenth-century Italian poet whose sonnets were all the rage in Renaissance England.
- 8. when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
- 9. a poetic form which originated in Italy;
- 11. persona poem, is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character.
- 18. a character who may be similar or in parallel circumstances compared to the main character of the story.
- 22. scheme the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.
- 23. be a warning or indication of (a future event).
- 25. 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
Down
- 1. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
- 3. is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.
- 4. love one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved.
- 5. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 6. 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.
- 10. is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings,
- 11. irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
- 12. a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect,
- 13. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
- 14. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
- 15. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 16. a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor.
- 17. A blank verse is a poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter. This means it consists of lines of five feet, each foot being iambic, meaning two syllables long, one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
- 19. 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.
- 20. A couplet is a pair of lines of metre in poetry.
- 21. a literary technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with each other.
- 24. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.