Romeo and Juliet Subject Terminology

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Across
  1. 4. A word or phrase that describes something by comparing it to something else using the word “is” - for example “He is a pig” – or giving it a different label – for example “You monster”.
  2. 6. Irony A situation in which an audience knows more about what is happening in a play or film than the characters do.
  3. 7. A poem that has 14 lines and a particular pattern of rhythm and rhyme. They were traditionally used to write about love in the renaissance period.
  4. 9. Obvious or subtle hints that something bad will happen.
  5. 10. A type of description in which something that is not a human is given human charactersitics.
  6. 13. A phrase that describes something by comparing it to something else using the word “like” or “as,” for example “He eats like a pig”.
  7. 14. The beginning of a play, film, or television programme that introduces the story.
  8. 16. A way of exaggerating what you are saying by describing it as far more extreme than it really is.
  9. 18. A conversation between characters in a book, play, or film.
  10. 19. The background (time and place) in which a book, play, film etc. is written and set.
Down
  1. 1. The ways in which a writer creates characters in a book, play, film etc. This can be through appearance, behaviour, speech etc.
  2. 2. A phrase or expression that contains words with opposite meanings.
  3. 3. Pentametre A common rhythm used in English poetry, in which each line contains five iambs (two syllables in a de-DUM stress pattern).
  4. 5. A process of studying or examining something in detail in order to understand it or explain it.
  5. 8. Careful thought about something before making a judgment about its value, importance, or quality.
  6. 10. Someone who writes plays (the suffix is an old English word meaning a maker).
  7. 11. A speech in a play in which a character who is alone on stage talks about their thoughts or feelings.
  8. 12. The use of words and phrases in literature that appeal to the senses, particularly sight.
  9. 15. A reason or set of reasons that you use for persuading other people to support your views or opinions.
  10. 17. A play in which people suffer or die, especially one in which the main character dies at the end. The outcome is normally known or expected from the start.