Romeo and Juliet Academic Vocabulary (Pre-Reading)

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Across
  1. 6. a play on words for a comedic effect
  2. 7. a person who writes plays
  3. 8. a character's thoughts spoken aloud only for the audience to hear (internal dialogue)
  4. 11. when the outcome of a work or series of events is the opposite of what was expected
  5. 14. a figure of speech in which apparent contradictory words appear together (ex-angelic devil)
  6. 16. a character who is used as a contrast to another character (like Batman and the Joker)
  7. 18. a personality trait of the main character that leads to his/her downfall (most common flaw being hubris/pride)
  8. 20. a long speech given by one person/character
Down
  1. 1. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
  2. 2. a long, emotionally-charged speech given by a single character
  3. 3. a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what the speaker actually meant (similar to sarcasm)
  4. 4. an archetype of lovers whose relationship is doomed to fail from the beginning
  5. 5. when facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of literature but known to the reader or audience
  6. 9. a conversation between to characters
  7. 10. a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter
  8. 12. a play dealing with tragic events, usually resulting in the deaths of the main characters
  9. 13. humor added that lessens the seriousness of the plot
  10. 15. a type of play meant to be performed (stage, television, etc.)
  11. 17. a druggist/herbalist/type of pharmacist
  12. 19. reversing the normal word order of a sentence (ex:"Whose woods these are I think I know")