Romeo and Juliet Literary Terms

play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings

·two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

when the audience knows something that the characters do not

includes things like similes, metaphors, and personification; can be used to compare things to other things which, like

the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature

unrhymed verse, especially iambic pentameter

a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. 

the event or force that starts the falling action

lines spoken by a character directly to the audience

thoughts spoken aloud by a character when he/she is, or think he/she is alone

giving human qualities to animals or objects

repetition of accented vowel sounds, and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem

·there are five iambic units in each line (unrhymed, this is called blank verse)

the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy

literary character who has a fatal flaw that, combined w/ fate/external forces, ends in tragedy

a drama dealing with a somber theme, typically depicting a great person destined to downfall

a part of a play when an actor makes a long speech (he/she can be talking to other actors on the stage)

an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable; regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure

a poem, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with a specific rhyme scheme