Across
- 2. kept the fighting going
- 3. a monologue spoken to the audience, often while the character is ALONE on stage
- 6. is a rhythmic pattern that consists of 10 SYLLABLES per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables
- 9. Provides the audience with an overview of the plot
- 10. Speaker of the prologue
- 16. how the prologue describes who Romeo and Juliet are
- 20. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
- 23. what time period did Shakespeare write in
- 24. long, uninterrupted speech that is spoken in the presence of other characters
Down
- 1. Montague's men wouldn't let these two pass
- 4. rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet
- 5. a comparison that doesn't use "like" or "as"
- 7. wants to marry Juliet but her father tells him he has to wait
- 8. is a Capulet
- 11. midwife of the fairies
- 12. a poetic form of 14 lines of iambic pentameter
- 13. Words spoken by a character in an undertone, not intended to be heard by other characters on stage
- 14. a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political reference
- 15. rhymed or unrhymed iambic pentameter
- 16. a comparison that uses “like” or “as”
- 17. is a Montague
- 18. wanted to keep the peace
- 19. name of the theatre in which Shakespeare's play were performed
- 21. ends the fight in the opening scene
- 22. what Romeo compares Juliet to
