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| sonet | 14 lines, love, rhyme, scene |
| couplet | two lines of poetry that usually rhyme. Here's a famous couplet: "Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow / That I shall say good night till it be morrow." |
| iambic petameter | a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. When I / do COUNT / the CLOCK / that TELLS / the TIME |
| situational irony | when one's actions lead to a result which is the opposite of what was intended or expected.One example from Romeo and Juliet is when Romeo's attempt to establish peace between Mercutio and Tybalt leads to Mercutio's death and an escalation of the war between the Montagues and the Capulets |
| dramatic irony | 1. Happens when the audience knows more information about the plot and situations in a play than certain characters do. - Lady Capulet believes that Juliet is grieving over the death of her cousin Tybalt, but in fact she is crying because of her separation from Romeo. |
| soliloquy | a moment where the character speaks aloud to him- or herself |
| monologue | a solo speech by a performer, gives depth and insigt into a characters thought & feelings |
| aside | Aside: an actor's speech, directed to the audience that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage. Juliet: Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet. |
| metaphor | an implied (suggested, hinted at) comparison between two unlike things. Romeo compares Juliet's eyes to the bright stars (Act II scene II) "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, |
| simile | when someone compares one thing to another and does so directly.Death lies upon her like an untimely frost. |
| foreshadowing | literary device in which an author hints certain plot developments that perhaps will come to be later in the story."If he be married. / My grave is like to be my wedding bed" |
| oxymoron | two words with opposite meanings. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, |
| paradox | is a statement that at first glance appears to contradict itself, but actually holds a deeper truth.(like an oxymoron) beautiful tyrant! |
| allusion | the act of making an indirect reference to something. One is in Act I scene iv, a reference to Cupid, the Roman god of love who shoots mortals with his bow and arrow to make them fall in love. |
| personification | literary device in which human- or animal-like qualities are bestowed on an inanimate object or concept. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, |
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