1. ROMEO + JULIET Literary Terminology Part 1

2. Literary Terminology
Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines with a formal rhyme scheme, typically with 10 syllables per line.
Shakespearean sonnet is made of 3 quatrains of 4 lines each, resolved by a couplet.
Couplet: two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

3. Literary Terminology Oxymoron:
Apparently contradictory words appear in conjunction (right next to each other).
Pretty ugly
Alone together
Awfully good
Passive aggressive

4. Literary Terminology Apostrophe:
When a person directly addresses someone or something not actually present: abstract concepts (love, etc.), people (dead or alive), place, or things (sun or sea).
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.”

5. Literary Terminology Foreshadowing:
Phrases and hints that set the stage for the story to follow without revealing the ending or spoiling the suspense.

6. Literary Terminology
Dramatic Irony: occurs in literature and media when the audience knows more about what is going to happen than the characters do.

7. Literary Terminology
Situational Irony: occurs in literature when incongruity appears between expectations of what is going to happen and what happens instead.

8. Literary Terminology Subtext: Ambiguity:
The actual meaning of someone’s words, created in non-verbal ways:
Tone
Inflection
Speed
Non verbals
Ambiguity:
Word, phrase or statement that contains more than one meaning: typically vague.
(white lie)

9. Literary Terminology Character Foil:
A character that exhibits opposite or conflicting traits to another character.
Typically these opposites emphasize characterization

10. Literary Terminology Pun:
A play on words in which a word suggests two or more of its meanings, or the meaning of another word similar in sound
A horse is a very stable animal.
A window breaks and someone cuts his finger. When telling his friend about this later, she says, “Wow, that sounds painful.” (pane-ful)