Romeo and Juliet vocabulary

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