Romeo and Juliet Quiz 2 Drama and Poetry Terms Honors

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Drama

A play

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Tragedy

A drama that presents the downfall of a dignified character or characters who are involved in historically or socially significant events. Ends in catastrophe and usually death

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Tragic Hero

The protagonist of a tragedy that fails or dies because of a flaw or a cruel twist of fate

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Act

A larger division of dramatic text that indicates a shift in location or time

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Scene

A smaller division of a dramatic text that indicates a shift in location or time

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Stage Directions

Direction in text in a drama that tells the readers the actions of the characters

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Prologue

A brief opening section to a play spoken by a single actor called "chorus"

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Epilogue

A piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, usually used to bring closure to the work

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Dramatic Irony

The audience is aware of something that the characters onstage are not aware of.

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Comic Relief

A humorous scene, incident or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity

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Dialogue

A conversation between two or more people.

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Monologue

A long speech by one person to an audience of any number of people

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Soliloquy

A long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts and feelings aloud

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Aside

Words spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character that are not supposed to be heard by the others onstage

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Apostrophe

A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction

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Refrain

A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines; like the chorus in a song.

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Rhyme

The occurrence of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words

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Couplet

A series of two rhymed lines with a pattern, meaning that ends of two lines rhyme with eachother

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Quatrain

A series/unit of four rhymed lines

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Rhythm

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

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Meter

Generally a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

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Iambic Pentameter

The rhythm in which Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are written; Lines consist of an alternating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Blank Verse

Poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter; "blank" means the poetry is not rhymed

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Free Verse

A form of poetry that does not have a regular rhythm or a rhyme scheme.

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Sonnet

A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter and used to explore deeply felt issues. Typically a problem/issue and then a offers a "solution".

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Shakespearean Sonnet

A sonnet that consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet
Ex. The whole Prologue in Romeo and Juliet

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Paradox

An apparently contradictory statement that actually reveals some truth.

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Oxymoron

To contradictory words, ex. jumbo shrimp, deafening silence, etc.

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Allusion

A brief, usually indirect reference to another piece of literature.

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Juxtaposition

To place side by side in order to compare

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Pun

A play on the multiple meanings of a word on two words that sound alike but have different meanings

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Connotation

The emotional and imaginative association of a word

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Denotation

The dictionary/literal definition of a word

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Inflection

a change in the form of a word (typically the ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender

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