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aside. When an actor whispers to another character (or to the audience) and the audience knows that none of the other characters on stage at the time can hear what was just said. metaphor. a comparison of two things without using the words “ like ” or “as .”.
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aside • When an actor whispers to another character (or to the audience) and the audience knows that none of the other characters on stage at the time can hear what was just said.
metaphor • a comparison of two things without using the words “like” or “as.” When Romeo saw Juliet standing on her balcony he said, “Juliet is the sun.”
allusion • an indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place or event. Romeo claimed Rosaline wouldn’t let herself fall in love when he told Benvolio, "She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow.”
simile • a comparison of two things using “like” or “as.” Tears flowed down his cheeks like a waterfall. She laughed like a hyena! Mark was as cute as a kitten and as tall as a tree.
alliteration • The repetition of an initial consonant sound. The slick, slimy snake slithered slowly across the sizzling sidewalk. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
iambic pentameter • A line of poetry that has 10 syllables. • Each lightly-stressed syllable is followed by a heavily-stressed syllable I hope that I can go to school today.
dramatic irony When Capulet tells Paris that Capulet is sure Juliet will be happy to marry Paris, his comments are funny to the audience because we know Juliet has already married Romeo, so she will NOT be happy to marry Paris. When the readers or audience know something that a character does NOT know which makes that character’s words or actions funny in a twisted sort of way.
blank verse • Poetry that does not rhyme, but uses iambic pentameter as its meter. I wish I were a frog on lily pads. Then I could learn about the warming sun. And bask in golden sun on leaves all day.
foreshadowing • When an author includes hints about what will happen later in the story.
characters • people who are in a piece of literature. • we find out what they are like in the following ways: 1. What they say.. 2. What they DO..(their actions)… 3. What OTHER characters say about them… 4. What the narrator tells us about them…
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comic relief • a humorous scene, incident, or speech that is included in a serious play to break the tension After the serious love scene between Romeo and Juliet, at the Capulets’ party, Mercutio and Benvolio are a bit drunk and they clown around as they look for Romeo.
dramatic conventions • certain practices or methods that are accepted by a reader or an audience even though they are not realistic. In Shakespeare's time, most plays were written in poetry, even though people don't really talk that way. If an actor entered the stage from the trap door in the platform, everyone in assumed the character was coming from HELL.
hyperbole a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated. Juliet tells Romeo, "A thousand times good night.”
foils • characters who are similar in many ways to each other, but which also are very different. Mercutio is a foil for Romeo because of Mercutio's constant joking and low opinion of love. Romeo is a “lover” not a “fighter.” Mercutio is a “fighter” not a “lover.
pun • a joke which comes from a play on words As Mercutio is dying he says, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
personification • figure of speech which gives human qualities to an object, an animal, or an idea When Lord Capulet said to Paris, "The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she” he implied that the earth was human-like by saying the earth had a mouth.
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tragedy • a dramatic work which presents the downfall of a good character brought about by himself. We like Romeo, but because he does not slow down to carefully think through his desires and plans, his actions lead to many deaths and his own suicide.
paradox • a statement that seems to contradict itself, but is true. Romeo says that love is "A choking gall, and a preserving sweet” during a conversation with Benvolio. (Something technically be sweet and bitter at the same time.)
chorus • in Greek tragedy, the chorus was a group of actors who commented on the actions of the characters • In Romeo and Juliet, a single actor stepped on stage, before the main action began, and summarized what would happen during the show by speaking the Prologue.
tragic hero • a person of noble status who has one or more character flaws that lead to his downfall
soliloquy • a speech in which a sole (single) character says his or her thoughts aloud, usually while he or she is alone on stage. At the beginning of the balcony scene, Juliet believes she is alone, so she talks to herself about her love for Romeo.
