Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. verse a form of poetry that uses unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
  2. 5. to take delight; to make merry
  3. 6. to satisfy; to put our or extinguish
  4. 9. a drama that ends in catastrophe - most often death - for the main character and often for several other important characters too
  5. 11. to hold out against; sustain
  6. 13. adhering to the norms of polite social interaction
  7. 14. wrongful entry
  8. 15. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
  9. 16. a single character who functions as a narrator, offering commentary on the play's plot and theme(s)
  10. 17. desire to harm or annoy
  11. 19. irony when the audience knows something that the characters or a character in the story does not
  12. 21. a smaller unit within a poem
  13. 22. created when the location or time of the play changes
Down
  1. 1. boldly courageous or brave
  2. 2. a speech a character gives when he or she is alone on stage, in effect talking to him or herself and expressing inner thoughts and ideas out loud. Its purpose is to let the audience, but not other characters, know what he or she is thinking
  3. 3. an exaggeration of the truth, usually made to make an audience laugh
  4. 7. resentment or complaint
  5. 8. two rhymed lines in a row
  6. 10. conforming to moral principles
  7. 12. mental outlook; one's temperamental tendencies
  8. 14. pentameter lines that ideally have five PAIRS of UNstressed/stressed syllables
  9. 15. a character's remark, either to the audience or to another character, which other characters are not supposed to hear. Its purpose is to reveal the character's own private thoughts
  10. 18. an introduction that tells the audience about the story's background or lesson
  11. 20. a major unit of action in a play (like a chapter in a book)