ROMEO AND JULIET
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 drama | story that is written to be acted for an audience |
| tragedy | play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end |
| tragic hero | the protagonist of a tragedy |
| catastrophe | the downfall or destruction of the tragic hero |
| tragic flaw | the character trait which brings about the downfall of the tragic hero |
| dramatic foil | character who is used as a contrast to another character |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something important that a character in a play does not know |
| sonnet | fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes |
| shakespearean sonnet | sonnet made up of three quatrains and one couplet - abab cdcd efef gg |
| meter | generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| stanza | group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| iambic foot | a metrical foot, or unit of measure, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (U /) |
| poetic foot | one stressed and one unstressed syllable |
| pentameter | a poetic line made up of five poetic feet |
| iambic pentameter | line of poetry that contains five iambic feet |
| quatrain | a stanza of four lines |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| monologue | a long speech given by one character to the others on the stage |
| soliloquy | unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud |
| aside | words spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage |
| metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of like, as, than, or resembles |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor that is extended, or developed, over several lines of writing or even throughout an entire poem |
| simile | figures of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| oxymoron | a rhetorical figure which includes incongruous or contradictory terms, as "bright smoke" or "feather of lead" |
| personification | kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
| poetry | type of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the reader's emotions and imagination |
| pun | play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| rhyme | repetition of accented vowel sounds, and al sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem |
| end rhymes | rhymes occurring at the ends of lines |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes in a poem |
| rhythm | musical quality in language produced by repetition |
| epithet | adjective or descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing |
| in medea res | a play begins "in the middle of things" |
| lord montague, lady montague, romeo, benvolio, balthasar | members of the montagues |
| lord capulet, lady capulet, juliet, tybalt, nurse, peter | members of the capulets |
| romeo | son of lord montague |
| benvolio | nephew of lord montague and friend of romeo |
| balthasar | servant of romeo |
| juliet | daughter of lord capulet |
| tybalt | nephew of lady capulet |
| nurse | nurse of juliet |
| peter | servant of nurse |
| prince escalus | ruler of verona |
| mercutio | a relative of the prince and a friend of romeo |
| friar laurence | a franciscan priest |
| friar john | another franciscan priest |
| count paris | a young nobleman, a relative of the prince |
| an apothecary | a druggist |
| page | page of paris |
| good will | meaning of benvolio's name |
| latin plural of exit | meaning of exeunt |
| one person | "mono" |
| win her heart, wait two years, her consent | three conditions of juliet's marriage to paris |
| lady capulet | compares paris to a book |
| emotionally changing | meaning of mercutio's name |
| his death | the premonition romeo has before the party |
| party | meaning of solemnity |
| villain | a huge insult |
| celestial | kind of metaphors romeo uses in the balcony scene to describe juliet |
| mythology | reference of "jove laughs" |
| jove falls in love with mortal women and tells many lies | why juliet say that "jove laughs" |
| impulsiveness | tragic flaw of romeo |
| he is talking about nature | why friar laurence's soliloquy is in couplets |
| he thinks it will end the feud | why friar laurence marries romeo and juliet |
| mercutio and nurse | dramatic foils to each other (one is old and female and one is young and male) |
| benvolio and tybalt | dramatic foils to each other (one is a peacemaker and one is a fighter) |
| friar laurence, balthasar, nurse | who knew about the marriage |
| friar laurence | who knew about the potion juliet was given |
| three days | how long romeo and juliet knew each other |
| the feud, mercutio defends romeo's honor, romeo interferes | three reasons romeo is responsible for mercutio's death |
| mantua | where romeo is exiled to |
| verona | where romeo is exiled from |
| dramatic irony | literary term that could be used to describe juliet's conversation with lady capulet after romeo's exile |
| it does not work at all, it is a poison, she wakes before romeo comes | three possibilities juliet fears before taking the potion |
| she will kill herself | what juliet will do if romeo is not in the tomb when she awaken |
| balthasar | tells romeo that juliet is dead |
| friar john | did not give romeo the letter |
| his dream in mantua | foreshadows his death near the end of the play |
| riding boots | used to show that someone was on a horse |
| the apothecary | sells romeo poison |
| he was not allowed to leave verona | why friar john could not give romeo the letter |
| hiding onstage | meaning of "retire" |
| alone | meaning of "solo" |
| he is mourning juliet | why paris is in the tomb |
| paris, paris's page, balthasar | people who are "retired" when romeo enters the tomb |
| romeo | killer of paris |
| romeo | killer of tybalt |
| tybalt | killer of mercutio |
| paris | romeo puts this person in the tomb with juliet |
| a battlefield | what romeo compares juliet's face to when he thinks she is dead |
| poison | what romeo kills himself with |
| 42 hours | the length of time that juliet was asleep |
| dagger | what juliet kills herself with |
| lady montague | dies the same day as romeo and juliet |
| everyone | the people who are punished for romeo and juliet's deaths |
| red | color associated with the capulets |
| blue | color associated with the montagues |
| dialect | distinct version of the language |
| angles and saxons | two languages where old english came from |
| middle english | language that succeeded old english |
| french | official language in england between 1066 and around 1200 |
| normans from france | controlled england in 1066 |
| the printing press | what william caxton invented in 1476 |
| standardized spelling and printed books | two results of the printing press in terms of language |
| juliet is married to romeo | why friar laurence does not like paris's plans to marry juliet |
| juliet is crying because romeo was exiled | why juliet is not really crying for tybalt's death |
| death has replaced romeo as juliet's lover | meaning of romeo's metaphor in the soliloquy inside the tomb |
| evils of money | what the apothecary shows about the play |
| hatred between two families can rob people of what they hold dearest | how the families would describe the theme of the play |
| those who act without considering the consequences bring about their own destruction | the most important theme of the play |
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