Romeo and Juliet Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. a group of performers who comment on the main action, typically speaking and moving together.
  2. 7. was a fourteenth-century Italian poet whose sonnets were all the rage in Renaissance England.
  3. 8. when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
  4. 9. a poetic form which originated in Italy;
  5. 11. persona poem, is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character.
  6. 18. a character who may be similar or in parallel circumstances compared to the main character of the story.
  7. 22. scheme the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.
  8. 23. be a warning or indication of (a future event).
  9. 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. 1. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
  2. 3. is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.
  3. 4. love one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved.
  4. 5. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
  5. 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.
  6. 10. is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings,
  7. 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.
  8. 12. a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect,
  9. 13. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
  10. 14. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
  11. 15. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
  12. 16. a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 20. A couplet is a pair of lines of metre in poetry.
  16. 21. a literary technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with each other.
  17. 24. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.