Literary Terms Romeo & Juliet

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Across
  1. 3. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables - each pattern is called a 'foot'
  2. 4. A quiet remark to audience or character that no-one else on stage can hear
  3. 5. A comparison that does not use 'like' or 'as'
  4. 10. Displays a flaw in character or judgement that leads to his downfall
  5. 11. Character who serves as a contrast to another character
  6. 12. A play on words with a double meaning
  7. 14. Line of poetry made of 5 stressed & unstressed beats or feet
  8. 16. Long speech where a character speaks aloud
Down
  1. 1. A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
  2. 2. A stanza consiting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter (all of the sonnets end in these!)
  3. 5. Long speech by a character
  4. 6. A reference to a well known work of art, literature or history
  5. 7. The conversation between characters
  6. 8. Clues about what will occur later in the story
  7. 9. Two lines that rhyme
  8. 13. A seeming contradiction
  9. 15. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
  10. 17. Two contradictory words that occur occuring one after the other