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Romeo/Juliet Vocab
Terms for Romeo and Juliet
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Act | A main division of a drama. Shakespeare's plays consist of five acts with each act subdivided into scenes |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same initial consonant sound |
| Allusion | A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work or art |
| Aside | A brief remark made by a character, intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage |
| Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Catastrophe | The downfall of the tragic hero; could be death or loss of another or power |
| Climax | The most emotional point when the conflict is addressed |
| Chiaroscuro | A deliberate contrast of light and dark to highlight movement or intensify a particular scene |
| Comic relief | A feeling created by a humorous action or speech that appears after a serious moment within a serious work of literature. Usually brought on by the servants or lower class |
| Comedy | A play that starts in turmoil, but finishes happy. Usually makes fun of the political system or human nature |
| Conceit | An extended metaphor that uses elaborate and exaggerated comparisons |
| Exciting force | The one event that initiates the rising action |
| Foil | A character that takes the opposite role of another character |
| Foreshadowing | A hint of what is to come in the story. This is often used to keep the audience in a state of expectancy |
| Hamartia | The event in a tragedy where the tragic hero "misses the mark" which initiates the cause and effect of the tragic downfall. Usually caused by a tragic flaw |
| History | A play based on real events or characters |
| Iambic pentameter | A 2-syllable metrical foor consisting of unaccented followed by accented words |
| Irony | The results from a contrast between what appears to be and what really is |
| Oxymoron | Two opposite ideas working together |
| Paradox | A statement that to be contradictory but actually presents a truth |
| Personification | Giving human qualitites to inanimate objects |
| Pun | A play on words; using a word or phrase that has more than one meaning or words that sound the same |
| Scene | A small unit of a play in which there is no shift of local or time |
| Simile | A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as' |
| Soliloquy | A dramatic convention allows a character, alone on stage, to speak his or her own thoughts aloud |
| Sonnet | A poem of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| Tragedy | A dramatic writing which contains many struggles and usually ends in catastrophe; contains a tragic hero |
| Tragic hero | The main character, usually upper class, who, through choice or circumstance, is caught up in a sequence of events that inevitably results in a catastrophe. We usually sympathize with this character as we too are caught up in the events |
| Tragic flaw | The character trait in the tragic hero, which causes his downfall |
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