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Romeo & Juliet Drama & Literary Terms
Directions: Using your green handout titled, “Romeo & Juliet Drama & Literary Terms,” complete the
following crossword puzzle.
Across
4. works of literature meant to be performed on stage or read as a performance
7. play on words; jokes that result from multiple word meanings or rhyming sounds; Ex. "You have dancing
shoes/With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead"
8. substitutes one term with another that is being associated with that term
11. special kind of concise paradox that brings together 2 contradictory terms; Ex. "loving hate"
12. a reference within a work to something that the audience is expected to know; Ex. " You are a lover.
Borrow Cupid's wings..."
15. a humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood; serves to heighten the seriousness of the main
action by contrast
17. form of poetry that most resembles natural speech; made up of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
18. a character's remark, either to the audience or to another character that others on stage do not hear
19. an introductory scene in drama
20. an exchange of words between 2 or more characters
21. restating main ideas using your own words
22. writer's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story
Down
1. when the audience knows more than the characters; helps build suspense
2. missing words to create a comic effect or characterize the speaker as being too confused, ignorant, or
flustered to use correct diction
3. a seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may nonetheless suggest an important truth
5. figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect
6. arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or abstract idea as if it was present & capable of
having feelings
8. an extended speech by a character, which is uninterrupted
9. a drama that ends in catastrophe - most often death - for the main characters
10. a character whose personality & attitude contrast sharply with those of another character
13. lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter in 3 quatrains and a final couplet with a
rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
14. a speech given by a character alone on stage; lets the audience know what the character is thinking or
feeling
16. type of meter that has 5 unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable