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Romeo & Juliet Literary Terms
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Drama a story written to be performed by actors
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Soliloquy a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage
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Monologue a speech by one character in a play, story, or poem
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Prologue an opening speech that introduces the play’s main characters, plot, and setting
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Tragedy a work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character.
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Tragic hero a character of noble birth with the potential for greatness, but due to a tragic flaw in his character makes an error in judgment that leads to his death
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Aside a short speech delivered by an actor in a play traditionally directed at the audience.
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Comic Relief a technique that is used to interrupt a serious part of a literary work by introducing a humorous character or situation.
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Dialogue a conversation between characters
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Blank Verse poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Dramatic Foil a character that provides a contrast to another character – opposites
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Suspense a feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a story – a way to keep the reader interested
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Dramatic Irony when a reader knows something that a character doesn’t know
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Pun Shakespeare loved to use them. Humorous use of a word with two meanings > sometimes missed by the reader because of Elizabethan language and sexual innuendo
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Prose Ordinary writing that is not poetry, drama, or song Only characters in the lower social classes speak this way in Shakespeare’s plays Why do you suppose that is?
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A fourteen line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter Topics: Love Friendship Mortality Immortality of poetry Sonnets
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Iambic Pentameter A series of five stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
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Couplet a pair of rhyming lines in poetry
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That completes our notes on literary terms. Now we will discuss sonnets more in depth.
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Sonnets A sonnet consists of three quatrains and one couplet
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Sonnets A quatrain is a series of four rhymed lines
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Sonnets First quatrain: the subject is revealed and why it is loved is explained Second quatrain: describe what is special about the subject – be descriptive and imaginative Third Quatrain: A problem arises with loving the subject
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Sonnets A couplet is a series of two rhymed lines Summarizes and leaves the reader with a new, concluding image
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Sonnets Rhyme Scheme – a pattern of rhyme in a poem Sonnet Rhyme Scheme: ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG
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Sonnets Iambic Pentameter: five beats of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables (“da-DUH”); ten syllables per line. Meter means rhythm.
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Sonnets “Who’s wood / these are / I think / I know /his house” “Is in / the village / though he / will not / mind me / stopping”
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