Romeo and Juliet Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 3. Irony, a literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.
  2. 5. Pentameter, Iambic pentameter is a rhythm structure used mostly in poetry that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five
  3. 8. a brief reference to a person place thing event or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
  4. 9. an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can't hear
  5. 12. a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
  6. 13. one of the major characters in a drama movie novel or other fictional text.
Down
  1. 1. Relief, inclusion of a humorous character scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work often to relieve tension.
  2. 2. a character expresses thoughts/feelings aloud while alone on stage
  3. 4. Hero, a character who has virtuous/sympathetic traits but meets suffering or defeat
  4. 6. the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
  5. 7. Foil, a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character.
  6. 10. a play with an unhappy ending that concerns the downfall of the main character.
  7. 11. Verse, refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines