Unit 4: Star Crossed Romances Vocabulary

a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers

a struggle or clash between opposing forces (internal or external)

Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers

a humorous way of using a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested

What device is used here, "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, / Hath had no power yet upon they beauty"?

a line of verse consisting of one unstressed and one stressed syllable

a kind of play in which events turn out in diaster for the main character

What device is used here, "Here, here will I remain / With worms that are thy chambermaids".

a remark, either to the audience or to another character, that others on the stage are not supposed to hear

a lengthy speech that a character gives while alone on stage or when no one on stage is supposed to be listening

The literal meaning is expressed through more than one figurative term or combination of metaphors

a figure of speech in which contradictory terms are used in conjunction (side by side)

part of a narrative in which the reader knows something that a character in the story does not know.

this character is flawed, of high social status, and has a weakness in judgement

in a dramatic production, italicized text usually indicates ...

characters who seem to be the opposite of one another

humorous incidents that relive the overall emotional intensity