Romeo and Juliet act 1/2
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32 Terms
Problem play
Drama of social criticism
Comedy of manners
Focuses on a specifc social class
farce
comedy with redicualos complications
melodrama
farce but ment for thrill
monologue
long speech in the presence of others
tragic flaw
a character trait that leads to their own downfall
quatrain
4 line stanza
couplet
2 line stanza
Iambic
unstressed, stressed
pentameter
5 feet on a line
foot
unit of meter
Meter
patters of unstressed syllables
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
consonance
like an alliteration, but the sounds anywhere in the word
assonance
repeated vowel sound in a line
implied metephor
when the comparison is hinted at but not clearly stated
oxymoron
2 contradictory words put together
paradox
2 contradictory statements put together
hyperbole
an extreme exaggeration
thou
you-subject
thee
you(object)
thy
your(before a consonant sound)
thine
your(before a vowel sound)
thine
yours( singular)
ere
before
wherefore
why
soft
wait a minute
sonet rules?
3 quatrains and 1 couplet. 14 lines in iambic pentameter
Benvolio?
romeos cousin
time period
late 1500s-early 1600s (elizabethan period)
stage directions?
he did not intend for it to be published and he worked face to face with the actors so there was no need
what burnt
globe theatre -1613