Romeo and Juliet act 1, parks
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aquariusgurlie17 on January 30, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| iamb | a metric foot containing one unstressed nd one stressed syllable (in that order) |
| iambic pentameter | a poetic meter describing a line of poetry tha tcontains five feet; each foot is an iamb. Therefore, it is a line of poetry containing five iambs. |
| sonnet | a poem containing 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a specified rhyme scheme. |
| grave accent | a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation. It is used to add an extra syllabe to a word to maintian the meter of the line. |
| contraction | the shortening of a word, or of two words, by hte omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllable to one. |
| inversion | a change of hte usual order of words or phrases |
| personification | a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form. |
| allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitous, or to a work of art, a casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event. |
| a classical allusion | refers to a reference to Greek or Roman mythology. |
| oxymoron | a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a defeaning silence and a mournful optimist. |
| aside | a piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by hte other actors on stage. a remark made in an undertone so as to be inadubile to others nearby. |
| pun | a play on words that sound the same but have different meanings |
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