ROMEO and JULIET

1. ROMEO and JULIET LITERARY TERMS

2. DRAMA A work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience. EX: stage plays, movies, TV shows

3. COMEDY • A humorous (funny) dramatic work.

4. TRAGEDY • A serious work of drama in which the hero suffers catastrophe or serious misfortune, usually because of his own actions.

5. HISTORY • A dramatic work based on an historical figure or event. • (Examples: The movies “Lincoln,” “Titanic,” “The Nuremburg Trials,” “Schindler’s List,” “JFK.”

6. ACT • A division within a play. • Example:similar to chapters in a novel

7. Romeo and Juliet is written in five acts ACT – Division within a play

8. SCENE • A division of an act into smaller parts which show the progression of events

9. Romeo and Juliet: All acts but Act 5 have five scenes

10. SIMILE A comparison between two things using “like” or “as” “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, and it pricks like thorn.” Other Examples: • As alike as two peas in a pod • As beautiful as nature • As big as a bus • As busy as a bee

11. FORESHADOWING Foreshadowing – a hint or clue that something is going to happen In Act I, Tybalt hints that he will still get revenge on Romeo for crashing to the party.

12. Dramatic Irony • Dramatic- A contradictionbetweenwhat acharacterthinksand what the reader/audienceknows to be true. Example: At the end of Act 1, we know that Romeo and Juliet are in love, but no one else knows.

13. Situational Irony • Situational – Contrastbetweenwhat the reader or a character expectsand what actually exists or happens. Example: The heart surgeon fainted at the sight of blood.

14. Verbal Irony • Verbal –when someone says one thing and means another. (sarcasm) Example: John’s hair is a mess. He looks like he slept in his car last night, but Jimmy says “John, who did your hair? It looks so stylish.”

15. PERSONIFICATION Human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea. Example: “The world breathed a sigh of relief.”

16. ASIDE Lines that are spokenaloudby a character and meant to be heardby the audience, but not by the other characters.

17. Sampson speaks to Gregory:who hears him? ASIDE - Lines spoken by a character TO the AUDIENCE, but not heard by others on stage.

18. MONOLOGUE • A long speech spoken by a character to himself, to another character, or to the audience.

19. SOLILOQUY • Thoughts spoken aloud by a character when he/she is alone, or thinks he/she is alone.

20. PUN • A joke that comes from a play on words. • EX: When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds! • There’s no point in writing with a broken pencil.

21. OXYMORON • Words with opposite meaningsare paired together • Examples: “sweet sorrow” “jumbo shrimp”

22. Oxymoron • Additional examples: • “pretty ugly” • “tender roughness”

23. DRAMATIC FOIL • A character whose traits are in direct contrast to the traits of another (usually the main) character.

24. COMIC RELIEF • A humorous scene or character that provides a break in tension or a change in emotional intensity

25. ALLITERATION “….those…..there…… them…..”Additional Examples:Rabbits Running Over RosesDressy Daffodils Caring cats cascade offLaughing lions laugh Alliteration – repetitionofconsonant sounds at the beginning of words

26. CONSONANCE • The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds within or at the end of words close together in a poem EX: Odds and ends • EX: First and last • EX: The tick of the clock.

27. Consonance 3) Thou shalt notstir a foot to seek a foe. Additional Examples: Litter and batter Spelled and scald Dress and boss Consonance – Repetition of consonant sounds usually at the ends of words.

28. ASSONANCE • The repetitionof similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem • Ex: Mybride ran through the nighttide, feeling alive.

29. Assonance 4) Too, soon, woo • Additional Examples: “Hear the mellow wedding bells” “Try to light the fire” “Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese” Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds within words

30. ENGLISH SONNET • A poemof14 lines, three quatrains (stanzas), and one couplet written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.

31. STANZA A group of two or more lines in a pattern that is repeated throughout a poem. It is comparable to a paragraph in a story.

32. COUPLET A rhymed pair oflines. EX: I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.

33. Couplet “………shall,” “……gall.” couplet – two lines that rhyme Example by Emily Dickinson:Singing he was, or fluting all the day; He was as fresh as is the month of May.

34. METER • A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

35. IAMB • An “unstressed”syllablefollowed by a “stressed”syllable. Also known as an “iambic foot.”

36. IAMBIC PENTAMETER • A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs. (Five iambic feet) • Example: good BYE/good BYE/good BYE/good BYE/good BYE

37. Iambic Pentameter a FAIR ass EMbly: WHItherSHOULD they COME? Iambic Pentameter: five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables within a line of poetry Additional Example:

38. BLANK VERSE Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote his plays in blank verse.

39. PROSE • The ordinary form of spokenorwrittenlanguage, without meter (a beat); prose is not poetry or verse. • In Shakespeare’s plays, lower class people speak in prose.