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What is couplet?
2 rhymed lines in a row
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What are Acts?
Larger parts of the play (like units)
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What is foreshadowing?
"A pair of starcrossed lovers take their life"
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What is metaphor?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
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Who is Mercutio?
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
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What is iambic pentameter?
lines with 5 unstressed then stressed syllables
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What is simile?
Comparison using like or as.
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What is metaphor?
There is thy gold - worse poison to men's souls.
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What is metaphor?
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.
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Who is Juliet?
My only love, sprung from my only hate.
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What is verse drama?
plays written like poems
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What is blank verse?
lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter
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What is simile?
Death lies on her like an untimely frost.
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What is metaphor?
Night's candles are burnt out.
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Who is Prince Escalus?
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word by thee, Old Capulet, and Montague have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets.
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What is tragedy?
Drama that ends in a catastrophe
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What is soliloquy?
speech that reveals a character's inner thoughts.
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What is pun?
Oh dear account! My life is my foe's debt.
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What is personification?
. . . and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
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Who is Mercutio?
If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
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What is allusion?
reference to something the audience should know (mythology, the Bible, etc.)
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What is aside?
character remarks that no one else hears.
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What is oxymoron?
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
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What is foreshadowing?
A plague o' both your houses!
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Who is Prince Escalus?
For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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