Romeo & Juliet Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. When the audience knows more than the characters, which helps build
  2. 5. flaw or a cruel twist of fate.
  3. 7. A reference to a literary or historical person or event that the audience is
  4. 8. A form of wordplay that suggests two or more meanings.
  5. 9. stage do not hear.
  6. 10. to know.
  7. 13. The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist.
  8. 15. A character’s remark, either to the audience or to another character, that others
Down
  1. 1. A character whose personality and attitudes contrast sharply with those of another
  2. 2. A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood, heightening
  3. 4. A meter that contains five unstressed syllables, each followed by a
  4. 6. Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
  5. 8. The main character who usually fails or dies because of a
  6. 11. A drama that results in catastrophe—most often death—for the main
  7. 12. syllable.
  8. 14. seriousness of the main action by contrast.
  9. 16. A speech given by a character alone on stage to reveal their thoughts and