Romeo and Juliet is filled with Similes Metaphors Personification Imagery Allusions and Puns Foreshadowing Irony Dramatic Situational and Verbal Tone Theme Alliteration Assonance Consonance and Onomatopoeia ID: 768960
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Romeo and Juliet is filled with… Similes Metaphors Personification Imagery Allusions and Puns Foreshadowing Irony – Dramatic, Situational, and Verbal Tone Theme Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, and Onomatopoeia
Comedy A dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone , usually ending happily with a peaceful resolution of the main conflict
Tragedy A dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignified character or characters who are involved in historically or socially significant events. Tragedies often begin with an error in judgment, followed by linked cause-and-effect events, finally ending in a disastrous conclusion, usually death.
Aside Words spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character, that are not supposed to be overheard by the others on stage in a scene Ex: Sampson (aside to Gregory)“Is the law of our side if I say ay?”
Stage Directions Used by the author to give directions and information to the actors such as settings, entrances, exits, and props EX: (Enter Romeo)
Foil A character set up as a contrast to another character Ex: Benvolio and Tybalt
Rhyming Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme Often signify in Shakespeare’s plays that: A) A character is exiting B) The end of a scene or Act EX: sorrow and ‘morrow
Rhythm The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry A regular pattern of rhythm is called meter
Meter The regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry Though all poems have rhythm, not all of them have regular meter.
Iambic Pentameter A line of poetry that contains five iambs (unstressed followed by stressed) Is used in blank verse and sonnets
Sonnet A lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter. The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains, (four-line units), and a final couplet. The typical rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg Ex: Prologue and R&J Meeting
Soliloquy A speech that a character gives when he/she is alone on stage. Its purpose is to let the audience know what the character is thinking; the speaker appears to be thinking out loud rather than addressing a listener
Monologue A speech that a character gives in which he/she speaks to one or more characters. Differs from a soliloquy in that the speaker is addressing a listener.
Enjambment The running over of the sense and structure of a line of verse or a couplet into the following verse or couplet.
Juxtaposition A scene set up as a contrast to another scene
Apostrophe The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.