Romeo and Juliet vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
  2. 4. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
  3. 5. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.
  4. 6. irony irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and misunderstood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
  5. 8. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition.
  6. 9. a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor.
  7. 11. love one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved.
  8. 12. Pentameter a certain kind of line of poetry that has to do with the number of syllables in the line and the emphasis placed on those syllables.
  9. 16. lover comes from the petrarchan sonnet, which is, an octave (or eight line block of verse) with an abbaabba rhyme scheme.
  10. 18. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
  11. 19. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
  12. 20. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes.
  13. 23. Rhyme words at the end of successive lines which rhyme with each other.
  14. 24. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
Down
  1. 1. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
  2. 3. to one side
  3. 7. a serious disagreement or argument
  4. 10. a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
  5. 13. a warning or indication of (a future event).
  6. 14. a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company.
  7. 15. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
  8. 17. scheme the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.
  9. 21. verse- no rhyme, iambic pentameter
  10. 22. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.