Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Marisa VanHouden

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Across
  1. 2. character in a play who speaks the prologue and comments ont he course of events
  2. 4. a joke explaining the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
  3. 8. rhyme of the terminal syllables of line poetry
  4. 10. a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
  5. 11. the act of talking while or as if alone
  6. 13. conversation between two or more people
  7. 15. a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents
  8. 18. a subject discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic
  9. 19. a fancy; whim; fanciful notion
  10. 21. a poem, properly expressed of a single, complete thought, or sentiment, of all lines, usually in iambic pentameter
  11. 22. not openly reciprocated or understood as such
  12. 23. to show or indicate beforehand
  13. 24. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it it not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
Down
  1. 1. a fatal event after an affair
  2. 3. a figure of speech that directly compares two things through some connective words
  3. 4. a preliminary dicourse, poem, or novel
  4. 5. the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its reference
  5. 6. irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grouped by the characters in the play
  6. 7. a figure by which a location produces an incongrouous, seemingly self-contradicory effect
  7. 9. a literary element that involves a struggle between two oposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist
  8. 12. a poem in the form of speech of narrative by an imagined person
  9. 14. melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his lover
  10. 16. a pair of successive lines of verses, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length
  11. 17. the pattern of rhymes used in a poem
  12. 20. unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in England dramatic, epic, and reflective verse
  13. 25. a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience