Romeo and Juliet is filled with…

• Similes• Metaphors• Personification• Imagery• Allusions and Puns• Foreshadowing• Irony – Dramatic, Situational, and Verbal• Tone• Theme• Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, and

Onomatopoeia

Comedy

• A dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone, usually ending happily with a peaceful resolution of the main conflict

Tragedy• A dramatic work that presents

the downfall of a dignified character or characters who are involved in historically or socially significant events. Tragedies often begin with an error in judgment, followed by linked cause-and-effect events, finally ending in a disastrous conclusion, usually death.

Aside

• Words spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character, that are not supposed to be overheard by the others on stage in a scene

• Ex: Sampson (aside to Gregory)“Is the law of our side if I say ay?”

Stage Directions

• Used by the author to give directions and information to the actors such as settings, entrances, exits, and props

• EX: (Enter Romeo)

Foil

•A character set up as a contrast to another character

•Ex: Benvolio and Tybalt

Rhyming Couplet

• Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

• Often signify in Shakespeare’s plays that:

A) A character is exiting B) The end of a scene or Act• EX: sorrow and ‘morrow

Rhythm

• The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• A regular pattern of rhythm is called meter

Meter

• The regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry

• Though all poems have rhythm, not all of them have regular meter.

Iambic Pentameter

• A line of poetry that contains five iambs (unstressed followed by stressed)

• Is used in blank verse and sonnets

Sonnet • A lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter. The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains, (four-line units), and a final couplet. The typical rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg

• Ex: Prologue and R&J Meeting

Soliloquy • A speech that a character gives when he/she is alone on stage.

• Its purpose is to let the audience know what the character is thinking; the speaker appears to be thinking out loud rather than addressing a listener

Monologue • A speech that a character gives in which he/she speaks to one or more characters.

• Differs from a soliloquy in that the speaker is addressing a listener.

Enjambment • The running over of the sense and structure of a line of verse or a couplet into the following verse or couplet.

Juxtaposition • A scene set up as a contrast to another scene

Apostrophe

•The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.