Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Lexie
Across
- 5. poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes in English typically having 10 syllables per line
- 8. 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.
- 9. Irony that in inheritance in speeches or a situation of drama and is understood by the audience but no grasped by the characters in the play
- 10. Fanciful expression in writing or speech an elaborate metaphor
- 11. of a group of people say the same thing at the same time
- 14. Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 16. Joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 17. Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book play or movie.
- 18. a line of a verse with 5 metrical feet each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable for example 2 households both alike in dignity.
- 19. Rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry
- 20. A serious disagreement or argument typically a protracted one
- 22. ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
- 24. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit
- 25. An event causing great suffering
Down
- 1. to show or indicate beforehand
- 2. the subject of a talk
- 3. Verse without rhyme especially that which uses iambic pentameter
- 4. A poem in 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.
- 6. Characters who work as opposites to show strengths and flaws in the other
- 7. Figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another
- 12. Of a feeling especially love. Not returned or rewarded
- 13. Separate introductory section of a literary or musical work
- 15. Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
- 16. Melodramatic self consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress
- 21. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 23. act of speaking ones thoughts aloud regardless of any hearers