Romeo and Juliet revision

3. - a story featuring a noble protagonist (tragic hero) who falls from a state of good fortune to disaster, often due to a fatal flaw like pride (hubris) or poor decisions. Usually ends with suffering and death
4. - Comparing two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’ in your comparison.
7. - a 14-line poem, often written in iambic pentameter.
11. - an introduction to a story that gives background information.
12. – visually descriptive or figurative language.
13. irony - When the audience knows something that the characters don’t.
14. pentameter – a line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable, followed by one stressed syllable.
15. – a system in which people or things are ranked according to status or authority.
16. - A more familiar and informal way of saying “you”.

1. – speaking one’s thoughts aloud when alone or regardless of other characters.
2. – a supernatural force believed to predetermine events in a person’s life.
5. – figurative language where one thing is compared to another by saying it ‘is’ that thing.
6. - a society or government where men hold the power.
8. – two opposite words side by side in a figure of speech.
9. – an era defined by the reign of Elizabeth I (1558 – 1603).
10. – a bitter quarrel or dispute that lasts a long time.