Across
- 2. the local authority who strives to keep the peace
- 5. the punishment for fighting in public
- 7. "where we lay our scene"
- 8. offers to build a gold statue of Juliet
- 10. was married before she was 13
- 13. dies of grief
- 16. a figure of speech combining contradictory terms for dramatic effect
- 17. Juliet's age
- 18. Juliet's talkative mentor
- 23. the object of Romeo's unrequited (then forgotten) love
- 25. banished to Mantua
- 27. Romeo's means of suicide
- 28. when a character delivers a speech to another
- 29. peacemaker
- 30. when two characters speak to each other
- 33. the object Friar Lawrence brings to the graveyard
- 34. loves throwing parties
- 35. Romeo's punishment for fighting in public
- 36. Juliet's fiance
Down
- 1. unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
- 3. sells poison, albeit unwillingly
- 4. dies after picking a fight with Tybalt
- 6. the circumstance that prevents Friar John from delivering a letter to Romeo
- 9. hothead
- 11. Juliet's means of suicide
- 12. says the famous line, "what's in a name?"
- 14. the conflict between the families
- 15. a couple that is doomed by fate
- 19. confession
- 20. the fairy who governs dreams
- 21. when a character speaks aloud, alone
- 22. a reference to something else (person, myth, etc.)
- 24. Romeo's mentor figure
- 26. poetic format of the prologue
- 31. the object Romeo uses to enter Juliet's room
- 32. when the audience knows something the characters don't