Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Ella Taylor
Across
- 4. rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry
- 5. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word
- 8. irony that is in speeches or a situation that is understood by the audience but not the characters
- 12. figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 14. a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way
- 15. conversation between two or more people in a book or play
- 17. verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
- 19. a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by a person in which the speaker reveals aspects of their character while describing a situation
- 20. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending
- 21. figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind
- 22. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, or a topic
- 23. the formation of a word from a sound associates with what it is named
- 25. the ordered pattern at the end of the lines of a poem or verse
- 26. when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage.
Down
- 1. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
- 2. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object it is not literally applicable
- 3. a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces
- 6. character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the abject to highlight the trait of the other
- 7. love that is not felt or returned
- 9. a separate introductory section of a literary work
- 10. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
- 11. to show or indicate beforehand
- 13. a melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress
- 16. a line of verse with five metrical feet, each with one short and one long syllable
- 18. act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers
- 24. a group of actors who described and commented upon the main action of a play with song and dance