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Tragedy |
A dreadful or fatal event or affair The story of Romeo and Juliet end in a tragedy, because the both die for each other. |
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Exposition |
A large- scale public exhibition or show Paris wanted to make an exposition of killing Montigues on Couplet land |
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Rising Action |
A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest When you find out that Romeo did not get the letter that the Frier sent him, about Juliet faking her death |
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Crisis or Turning Point |
A stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of the future is determined When Romeo kills Paris, after he killed a family member of the prince |
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Falling Action |
The part of literary plot that occurs after the climax or turning point When Romeo pays a midnight visit to Juliet, after killing Paris |
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Climax |
The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something When Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished out of Rome forever, or die |
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Resolution or Denouement |
The act of preforming after or before an event, course of action, method When Juliet sends her maid to tell Romeo she wants to get married, and he tells her were to meet him |
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Meter |
A rhythmic element as measured by division into parts of equal time value The beginning is a meter, it has a rhyming word at the end of each part, and is measured by he amount of time it takes to say each part |
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Blank Verse |
non-rhyming verse, most likely used in English dramatics or epics Romeo and Juliet the play has several blank verses, it switches from rhyme to talking normal every page or so |
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Iambic Pentameter |
A common meter in poetry consisting of non-rhyming lines with five feet or accents Mercutio's speech about love is said in non-rhyme and is very long |
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Drama |
The act or quality of being dramatic The play of Romeo and Juliet is a drama by its tragic ending and romance |
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Tragic Flaw |
The character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist Romeo jumps the gun to all the time in the play, making himself die and than forcing Juliet to kill herself |
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Dramatic Foil |
A character or event preventing the hero(s) rom getting to their goal Tybalt and Lord Capulet, through out the whole play, are seen again and again stoping the lovers from being together |
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Sonnet |
A poem with 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes The end monologue is a set of 14 lines, all ending in in a word than is said the same way |
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Couplet |
A pair of successive lines of verse that rhyme or are the same sound When Paris talks about how pretty Juliet is, even in death, in the Capulets tomb |
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Soliloquy |
The act of talking while or as alone Romeo is talking alone out side of Juliet's room, comparing her to the moon, than to the sun |
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Aside |
A part of an actors lines not heard by the other actors, only to the audience When Tybalt talks about how he will make Romeo feel sorry for coming to the party, how he will make him pay |
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Monologue |
A form of dramatic entertainment preformed solo to a crowd Juliet talks about how she wishes Romeo had any other name than that of her family's hated enemies |
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Mood |
A distinctive emotional quality of a character Lord Capulet jumps from idea to idea, he said no to marriage, than suddenly made it less than week away |
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Allusion |
The making of a casual or indirect reference to something When Juliet's maid talks about how her child was too good for her and died, and how Juliet is the same as that child just she lived longer than it |
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Foreshadowing |
To hint or reference to something that will happen in the near or far future
The very beginning starts with a monologue explaining what the play is about and what will happen |
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Theme |
A short or formal story, or a set that is all alike in one or more way The story of Romeo and Juliet is similar to any other romance story out their, it was just created first |
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Pun |
The funny use of a word or phrase that hints to another meaning, usually to make fun of someone Juliet's maid talks about when she was a baby and how she was able to stop her from breast feeding |
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Oxymoron |
A figure of speech by which the person talking creates a self-contradictory effect The Frier dose this when he talks of the importance of the letter for Romeo, but gives it to a not so bright student |
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Tone |
The way of sounding, intonation of the voice to show some meaning When Lord Capulet tells Juliet she will marry Paris, he sounds scary and full of power, a true killer of love |
