Terms in a Play | Literary Terms | More Literary Terms | Romeo | Juliet |
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What is a conversation between two or more characters
dialogue
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What is dramatic irony
This occurs when the audience knows something that a character onstage does not know.
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What is iambic pentameter
each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
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What is focused on love and tempermental
When Benvolio talks to his cousin in Act I, he finds Romeo like this.
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What is intelligent and obedient
Adjectives that describe Juliet are these.
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What is how actors learn how to move onstage and say their lines
stage directions
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What is the climax of a play
the moment of greatest emotional intensity or suspense -- when Juliet stabs herself and dies
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What is a couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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What is because unlike Romeo, he does not take love seriously
Mercutio can be identified as the foil to Romeo, because of this.
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What is at the Capulet's party
Juliet first meets Romeo here.
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What are the parts of a tragedy
the main characters die, characters are responsible for there own downfall, and serious actions end unhappily
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What is the turning point of the play
The moment in a play after which all actions move toward an either happy or unhappy ending
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What is a paraphrase
This is when you restate the ideas in a text in your own words
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What is to match wits with Romeo
Mercutio engages in a conversation about fashion with Romeo in order to do this
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What is the Nurse's part
Which character part speaks these lines: "Though his face be better than any man's, yet his legs excel all men's;and for a hand and foot, and a Body, though they not be talked on, yet they are past compare."
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What is an aside
lines spoken by a character to the audience or another character that others onstage are not supposed to hear
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What is the complication to the main conflict in Romeo and Juliet
Lord Capulet arranges for his daughter to marry Paris
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What is pushes away her elders and threatens suicide
When Juliet encounters more conflicts and changes, her character changes, and she does this
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What is that Juliet is dead
Romeos' servant Balthasar bring this news to Romeo in Mantua
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What is she is in deep mourning for Tybalt
What Paris thinks is Juliet's state of mind when she visits Friar Laurence
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What is a the point Prince Escalus makes to the Montagues and the Capulets in his dramatic monologue in Act I?
Anyone who continues to feud in the families will be put to death.
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What is a theme of Romeo and Juliet?
Children, obey your parents
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What is that the audience knows that Juliet is not dead.
When Romeo hears that Juliet is dead, the dramatic irony lies in this fact.
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What is an aside
When Balthasar says, " For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout./His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt" outside the tomb, it is an example of this.
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What is agreeing to marry Paris and act an obedient daughter.
Juliet surprises Lord Capulet on her return from Friar Laurence's cell by doing this.
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