English honors - freshman year - second semester

R+J prereading pear deck:

• 1597 was when romeo and juliet published

• based on arthur brookes long narrative poe, “the tragicall historye of romeus and juliet (1562)

• its a drama, tragedy.

• foreshadowing: suggesting, hintinh, indicating, or showing what will occur later in the narrative

• comedic relief: the inclusion of a humorous character, scene, or witty dialouge in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension

• dramatic irony: when the audience has more informationabout the story than the characters in it.

• dramatic foil: two characters (one that is usually the protagonist) what have conflicting personality traurs - emphasizing particular qualities

• soliloquy: a lengthy speech in a play in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts directly to the audience

• monolouge: a lengthy speech that us addressed to other characters on stage in the play

• aside: a brief comment that a character makes that the audience can hear, but the characters on stage cannot.