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Literary Terms

Literary Terms. Romeo and Juliet English I. Allusion. A reference to a well-known historical or literary figure, happening, or event Ex: “Venus smiles not in a house of tears” Reference to Venus, goddess of love and beauty. Foil.

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Literary Terms

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  1. Literary Terms Romeo and Juliet English I

  2. Allusion • A reference to a well-known historical or literary figure, happening, or event • Ex: “Venus smiles not in a house of tears” • Reference to Venus, goddess of love and beauty

  3. Foil • Two characters placed side by side to heighten their differences. • Ex: On Full House, the cool, suave Uncle Jesse is a foil to the comical, goofy Uncle Joey.

  4. Foreshadowing • Hints or clues to upcoming events. • Ex: In Rocket Boys, Miss Riley’s absences from school foreshadow Sonny’s discovery of her illness.

  5. Figurative Language • Language that is not meant literally. • Ex: “He’s so cool.” “I hit the road”

  6. Metaphor • An implied comparison between two essentially unlike things. • Ex: “Her eyes are dark pools.”

  7. Simile • A comparison of two essentially unlike things using the words “like” or “as.” • Ex: “Life is like a box of chocolates.”

  8. Personification • Giving human qualities to non-living things. • Ex: “The fog crept slowly across the river.”

  9. Oxymoron • A combination of contradictory words • Ex: “wise fool,” “jumbo shrimp,” “cruel kindness”

  10. Pun • A play on words using two different meanings of the same word. • Ex: “Seven days without laughter makes one weak.” (A pun on week/weak)

  11. Alliteration • Repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words • Ex: “Seven swans a swimming”

  12. Hyperbole • A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. • Ex: “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!”

  13. Couplet • Two lines of rhyming poetry • Ex: “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.”

  14. Iambic Pentameter • A rhyme scheme in which: • Each line has ten syllables • Each line consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. • Ex: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

  15. Sonnet Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? A Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A And Summer's lease hath all too short a date: B Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd; D And every fair from fair sometime declines, C By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: D But thy eternal Summer shall not fade E Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, E When in eternal lines to time thou growest: F So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, G So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. G • A fourteen-line poem consisting of three 4-line stanzas and a final couplet. Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg

  16. Soliloquy • A speech given by one character, usually alone on stage. It usually reveals personal thoughts, feelings.

  17. Monologue • A lengthy speech given by one character speaking to other characters.

  18. Aside • A remark spoken in an undertone by one character (either to the audience or to another character) which remaining characters do not hear.

  19. Dramatic Irony • When the audience knows more about a situation than one or more characters. • Ex: In The Odyssey, the audience is aware that Odysseus has returned home, but Penelope thinks he is just an old beggar.

  20. Tragedy • A work in which the main character (tragic hero) meets an unhappy and possible fatal end. • Ex: Romeo and Juliet

  21. Tragic flaw • The defect in the character of a tragedy (a tragic hero) that causes his downfall. • Ex: Hubris, rash behavior

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