Romeo and Juliet

Conflict

A struggle between opposing forces that drives the plot forward in a story.

External conflict

Conflict that occurs between a character and an outside force, such as another character or nature.

Internal conflict

Conflict that takes place within a character's mind, involving opposing feelings or thoughts. person vs self

Couplet

Two lines of verse that rhyme and often work together as a unit in a poem.

Epithet

A descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

Figurative language

Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

Ex. metaphor, simile. personification, alliteration, hyperbole

Foil

A character who contrasts with another character, highlighting particular qualities of the other character.

Ex. Benevoilio is the foil of tybalt; since he wants to keep the peace clues / hints of future events

Foreshadowing

A literary device used to give hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.

Iambic meter

A metrical pattern in poetry consisting of two syllables, with the stress on the second syllable.

Iambic pentameter

A type of meter in poetry, consisting of five iambs per line.

Metaphor

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, stating that one thing is another.

Ex. Prince describes the Montague and Capulet men as Beasts.

Simile

A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as."

Ex. she hangs on the cheek of night like a rich jewel in Ethiopians ear.

Pun

A play on words that exploits multiple meanings of a term or the similarity of sound between different words.

Ex. “You having dancing shoes/ with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead”.

Aside

In drama, an aside is a dramatic device where a character speaks directly to the audience, revealing their thoughts or feelings without being heard by other characters on stage.

Oxymoron

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Ex.”O brawling love, O loving hate,

O heavy lightness, serious vanity,

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,”

Personification

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

“locks fair daylight out”

Round character

is a character that audience has a lot of info about.

Ex. Juliet

onomatopoeia

A word that sounds like a sound
Ex. aww click zip

hyperbole

exaggeration
Ex. My bag weighs a ton

alliteration

repetition of the beginning of the consonant sound
i.e Sally sell sea shells

allusion

Is a reference to a well known or important person place or thing

ex. those shoes are you lucky glass sl