s2022 R&J Drama and Poetry Terms (Final Exam)

a negative trait that leads to the downfall of the protagonist/hero

A comparison between unlike objects that does not use like or as

Breaks up heavy, intense drama in a play

a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition

“Death lies on her like an untimely frost/ Upon the sweetest flower of all the field”

when the speaker addresses someone or something that cannot answer back

A character delivers a speech while alone on stage to expose thoughts/feelings/plans

the overall point the author wants the reader to take away from the work

“How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!”

A character delivers a speech to multiple characters

Romeo and Juliet's first words to each other

A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation; should rhyme, but don't

“I talk of dreams,/ Which are children of an idle brain…”

an extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally

a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers sorrow

a line of verse with five metrical feet (one short syllable followed by one long syllable)

The last words in two consecutive lines rhyme

Hubris means...

“Then I defy you, stars!”

“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

"It is too rash…like the lightening which doth cease to be ere can say it lightens.”

opposite of a hyperbole

“For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

“Parting is such sweet sorrow…”

Fate (or the gods) play a role in the outcome of the characters' lives

A comparison between unlike objects that uses like or as.

an incongruent pairing of two words (or one word)

Two or more characters converse with each other on stage

A character speaks to another character on stage (while other characters do not hear)

Romeo will send word by 9:00 AM. Juliet responds, “Tis twenty years till then.”

Romeo watches Juliet and whispers, “O, speak again, bright angel!”

a 14 line poem (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)

“Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch.”

A playwright's descriptive comments that provide the reader with information and/or action

Four lines of alternating rhyme (ABAB)

Words that don't rhyme exactly, but the poet intended for them to rhyme

"O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created! O heavy lightness, serious vanity..."

A character who highlights positive/negative traits in the protagonist

making a situation seem less important than it really is

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”