Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary- Kelsey Morrison
Across
- 3. when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
- 6. unrhymed verse especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter
- 7. a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
- 9. a group of actors or a single actor having a function similar to that of the Greek chorus as in Elizabethan drama
- 10. a pair of successive lines of verse especially a pair that rhyme and have the same length
- 11. to fight or contend
- 16. to represent,indicate, or typify beforehand
- 18. a character who contrast with another character their opposite
- 20. a single character addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation
- 22. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or actin to which it is not literally applicable
- 24. melodramatic self consistory suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress
- 25. the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem
- 26. the conversation between characters in a novel, drama etc.
Down
- 1. a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
- 2. the preface or introduction to a literary work
- 4. when love is not returned
- 5. the use of such metaphors as a literary characteristic especially poetry
- 8. a poem or utterance of a character in a drama that has the form of a monologue or gives the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections
- 12. a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great man
- 13. a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short unstressed syllable followed by one long stressed syllable
- 14. a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character
- 15. a part of an actors lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience
- 17. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 19. a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation
- 21. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 23. make a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word