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litterary termss
Litteray terms for romeo and juliet
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetiton of intial consonant sound. Alliteration is used to create meldoy,establish mood, and call attenton to certain words. |
| allusion | An indirect reference to a person, thing event situation, or aspect of culture real or fictional,past or present. An alluison may draw from literature,myth, or he Bible |
| aside | A remark spoken in an undertone by one character either to the audience or to another character which remaning characters do not hear. |
| chorus | a single actor who recites the prollogue |
| couplet | any two line stanza that contains a complete thought; couplets are usually rhymed. |
| foil | a character who provides a strinking contrast ro a main character,thus calling attentiion to certain traits of the main charatcer. |
| foreshadowing | the techinquw of providing the reader or veiwer with hinta,clues,or indications about the future action of a story or play; forshadowing prepares the reader for what is to come and helps them to anticipate the outcome. |
| irony | in general, a cintrast between what appears to be what really is. |