Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary By Braiden
Across
- 4. verse without rhyme
- 5. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word. (CNN has bad ones)
- 9. a group of people that say the same thing at the same time.
- 11. an abstract idea
- 12. conversation between two or more people in a play, book, or movie.
- 13. a line of verse in which a short syllable is followed by a long syllable.
- 14. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
- 16. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
- 18. 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.
- 21. clash of ideas, or people, causing a problem
- 22. a figure of speech in which a word is applied to an object.
- 24. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
- 25. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
- 26. be an indication of a future event.
Down
- 1. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
- 2. somebody obsessed of love of somebody else.
- 3. someone who writes a play
- 6. (of a feeling, especially love) not returned or rewarded.
- 7. two lines of verse usually in the same meter and by rhyme.
- 8. when characters dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on stage
- 10. The solution of rhymes.
- 15. a character who is similar to the main character.
- 17. When a poem has lines that end with words that sound the same.
- 19. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named
- 20. 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 (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
- 23. a figure of speech in which apparently contradicting terms appears in conjunction.