Romeo and Juliet Elements of Drama: Definitions
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words. |
| Aside | Character says lines on stage that not all characters are meant to hear. |
| Chorus | One actor who serves as a narrator outside of the action |
| Comic relief | A humorous scene, incident, or speech in the course of a serious literary work used to relieve emotional intensity. |
| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces |
| Dramatic Irony | Audience knows something importatn the character does not know |
| literary foil | a character whose personality or actions contrasts with those of another character |
| malapropism | a humorous misuse of a word. |
| oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite terms. |
| Personification | The use of words to make an object seem human. |
| prologue | brief outline ahead of the action. Preview that highlights main ideas and themes |
| Pun | A play on wods meant to be humorous. |
| Setting | Time and place of the story |
| Soliloquy | speech a character gives alone to let audience know their thoughts. |
| allusion | a reference to a famous piece of literature such as Romeo and Juliet |
| Tragedy | A drama that has a serious theme. Typically, a character is destined to downfall or destruction. |
| Comedy | Play or movie that is light and humorous with a cheerful ending |
| blank verse | lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme |
| foot | a unit of meter, a metrical foot can have 2 or 3 syllables |
| couplet | the last two lines in a sonnet that rhyme |
| iambic pentameter | meter pattern of two syllables with the stress on the second syllable with a metrical line of poetry with 5 feet |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. "the beat" |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of the repetition of sounds at the ends of lines of poetry |
| sonnet | 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem; poetic paragraph |
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