Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Jasmine Ledford

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Across
  1. 2. a warning or indication of a future event
  2. 8. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
  3. 10. a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor
  4. 11. a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company
  5. 14. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
  6. 15. a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable
  7. 17. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
  8. 18. love that is not returned
  9. 19. a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
  10. 20. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
  11. 23. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
  12. 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
  13. 26. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Down
  1. 1. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one
  2. 3. a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character
  3. 4. a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events
  4. 5. 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. 6. verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
  6. 7. melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress
  7. 9. is defined as when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
  8. 12. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
  9. 13. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work
  10. 16. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
  11. 21. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
  12. 22. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic
  13. 24. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play