Romeo and Juliet Terms for Final
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iambic pentameter
the most common verse line in English poetry. It consists of five verse feet, with each foot an iamb-that is, an unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
couplet
a stanza of two lines, usually rhyming
quatrain
a four-line stanza which may be rhymed or unrhymed
blank verse
a poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
rhymed verse
a poem written in rhymed iambic pentameter
free verse
unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern
sonnet
a lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhymed scheme is fixed
soliloquy
in drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.
aside
a device in which a character says something which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play.
irony
device by which a writer expressed a meaning contradictory to the stated one.
verbal irony
a person says one thing, but means the opposite.
situational irony
something happens in the action that is contrary to what is expected. The character must be expecting something different to happen for this to be irony.
dramatic irony
the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not know.
comedy
less serious than a tragedy; usually has a happy ending
tragedy
about a serious topic that has an unhappy ending
pun
word play involving a) the use of a word with two different meanings; b) words spelled differently but pronounced the same; or c) 2 words pronounced and spelled somewhat the same but having different meanings.
metaphor
a figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without use of the words “like” or “as”
simile
a comparison using “like” or “as”
oxymoron
a figure of speech consisting of 2 seemingly contradictory terms that expresses a startling paradox (ex: deafening silence, found missing, sweet sorrow)
paradox
a statement which appears to be self-contradictory, but actually contains a truth that reconciles the two opposites.