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Romeo & Juliet
Literary Terms and Shakespeare Info
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A reference to a great piece of literature |
| Aside | Words spoken in an undertone for the audience to hear but not a certain character |
| Couplet | pairs of rhymed lines |
| Foil | two characters' personalities are completely opposite to accentuate each other |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis; overstatement |
| Oxymoron | paired words that are opposites (ie: jumbo shrimp) |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison between two things that are dissimilar in which one is described in terms of another (NOT using like or as) |
| soliloquy | a character is alone on stage expressing his/her thoughts or feelings; it is usually longer than an aside and not directed at the audience |
| monologue | a long uninterrupted speech in the presence of the other characters |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| stanza | a major sub-division in a poem |
| sonnet | a 14 line poem with the specific rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg |
| iambic pentameter | a line made up of 5 pairs of short/long or unstressed/stressed, syllables |
| malapropism | an inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it |
| motifs | repeating images, element or theme |
| comic relief | a humorous scene, incident, or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity |
| colloquial language | informal; sometimes slang colloquial, sometimes vulgar, speech sets common characters apart from those of a higher station |
| double entendres | a phrase that has two meanings; especially where one is innocent and literal the other is resque, bawdy or ironic, an innuendo |
| understatement | the opposite of hyperbole, to make little of something important |
| tragedy | The central figure meets with disaster or grave misfortune. In most tragedies, the tragic hero's downfall is usually the result of fate's intervention, or a character flaw or tragic flaw |
| Shakespeare's birth | April 23, 1564 |
| Shakespeare's death | April 23, 1616 |
| Three ways Shakespeare was involved in the theater | shareholder, actor, writer (S.A.W.) |
| Where Shakespeare was born | Stratford-upon-Avon |
| Shakespeare's wife | Anne Hathaway |
| Name of theater group under Queen Elizabeth I | Lord Chamberlain's Men |
| Name of theater group under King James | The King's Men |
| Name of theater Shakespeare performed at | The Globe |
| Who inspired Shakespeare to write Romeo & Juliet | Arthur Brooke |
| The century/time period when Shakespeare was alive | 14th Century |
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