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Romeo and Juliet
Literary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Drama | A story written to be acted out by an audince |
| Tragedy | A play , novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main characters comes to an unhappy end |
| Porlogue | A short introduction at the beginning of a play, that gives a brief overview of the plot |
| Chrous | A group who says things at the same time |
| Static Characters | Characters who do not change much thorough the course of the story |
| Dynamic Charaters | Characters who change as a result of the story's events |
| Aside | Words spoken by a character in a play, uaslly in an undertone and not intended to be heard |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic poentameter |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that ryhme |
| Iambic Meter | Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syallable |
| Iambic Poentameter | Five verse feet with each foot an iambic (a total of ten syllable) |
| Pun | Humors use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time |
| Monologue | A long, uninterrupted speech presented in front of an audince |
| Soliloquy | A speech in which a character is alone on stage and expresses thoughts out loud |
| Oximorn | Figure of speech that complies apparently contradictory terms |
| Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one several rhyme schemes. Shakesperan sonnet has three, four line units (quatrains) followed by a concluding two-line Shakespearean sonnet is abbab cdcd etef gg |
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