Name: Stone Williams

Per. 5

Date: 07, May 2015

Romeo and Juliet

Literary Terms Assignment
Give a quote or example

from this
play for EACH term that has a * next to it.

Literary Term

Definition

Textual Evidence (Act.Scene.Lines)

1. Play

-a dramatic composition or piece

2. Tragedy*

-a dramatic composition dealing with

serious or somber theme, typically involved
a great person destined to experience
downfall or utter destruction

3. Comedy

-a play of light and humorous character with

a happy or cheerful ending

4. Act

-one of the main divisions of a play or opera

5. Scene

-a division of a play or of an act of a play

6. Props

-an object used on stage by actors during a

performance

7. Stage
Directions*

-an instruction in the text of the play

8. Historical
Approach

-the process of establishing general facts

and principles through attention to
chronology and to the evolution or historical
course of what is being studied

9. Dramatic
Foil*

- a character who contrasts with another

character in order to highlight particular
qualities of the other character

10. Blank
Verse

-a literary device defined as un-rhyming

verse written in iambic pentameter

11. Sonnet*

-a poem of fourteen lines using any of a

number of formal rhyme schemes

Romeo and Juliet

Enter JULIET, somewhat fast, and

embraceth ROMEO (Shakespeare 132 Act
2 Scene 6)

Benvolio: [...] By my head, here comes the

Capulets.
Mercutio: By my heel, I care not.
(Shakespeare 32 - 34 Act 3 Scene 1)

The Prologue

12. Iambic
Pentameter*

-a line of verse with five metrical feet, each

consisting of one short syllable followed by
one long syllable

Two households, both alike in dignity. (In

fair Verona, where we lay our scene), From
ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where
civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From
forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair
of star-crossed lovers take their life,
(Shakespeare 1 - 5 The Prologue)

13. Couplet*

-two lines of verse, usually in the same

meter and joined by the same rhyme, that
forms a unit

But passion lends them power, time means,

to meet, Tempering extremities with extreme
sweet. (Shakespeare 13 - 14 Act 2
Prologue)

14. Pun*

-a play on the sound of words to achieve a

certain effect

Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me

a grave man. (Shakespeare 94 - 95 Act 3
Scene 1)

15. Aside*

-when a characters dialogue is spoken but

not heard by the other actors on the stage

Romeo is talking to himself about how

beautiful Juliet is when he sees her on the
balcony. (Shakespeare 2 - 25 Act 2 Scene 2)

16.
Monologue*

-any speech of some duration addressed by

a character to a second person

Friar Lawrence is subtly talking about how

young love ends in death to Romeo.
(Shakespeare 9 - 20 Act 2 Scene 6)

17. Soliloquy*

-an utterance or discourse by a person who

is talking to himself or herself or is
disregarded of or obvious to any hearers
present

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Shakespeare 1 Act 2 Scene 2)

18. Dialogue*

-the lines spoken by a character or

characters in a play especially a
conversation between two characters

I take thee at thy word. Call me but love,

and Ill be new baptized. Henceforth I never
will be Romeo. (Shakespeare 49 - 51 Act 2
Scene 2)

19.

-a literary device by which an author hints

what is to come

These violent delights have violent ends.

And in their triumph die, like fire and
powder. (Shakespeare 9 - 10 Act 2 Scene
6)

20. Situational
Irony*

-irony involving a situation in which actions

have an effect that is opposite from what
was intended

Romeo tries to break up the fight between

Mercutio and Tybalt (Shakespeare 81 - 85
Act 3 Scene 1) Then when Mercutio dies,
Romeo fights Mercutio. (Shakespeare 118 127 Act 3 Scene 1)

21. Verbal
Irony*

-irony in which a person says or writes one

thing and means another

But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my

cousin? Even though they are husband and
wife, Juliet still calls Romeo, villain, since
they are still from rival families.
(Shakespeare 101 Act 3 Scene 2)

22. Dramatic
Irony*

- occurs when the audience knows

something the characters do not

Juliet is talking about how much she loves

Romeo and what she wants to do with him.

Foreshadowing*

At this point, she is completely unaware of

Romeo killing Tybalt (Shakespeare 1 - 31
Act 3 Scene 2)
23.
Oxymoron*

-a figure of speech in which two opposite

ideas are joined to create an effect

Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!

Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening
lamb! (Shakespeare 76 - 77 Act 3 Scene 2)

24. Imagery*

-the mental pictures that readers

experience with a passage of literature

A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse.

Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaubed in blood,
All in gore blood. (Shakespeare 55 - 57 Act
3 Scene 2)

25.
Personification*

-the attribution of human nature or

characters to animals, inanimate objects, or
abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical
figure

Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow, That

tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops -
(Shakespeare 107 - 108 Act 2 Scene 2)

26.
Alliteration*

-occurs when a series of words in a row

have the same first consonant sound

The day to cheer and nights dank dew to

dry. (Shakespeare 6 Act 2 Scene 3)

27. Metaphor*

-the comparison of one thing to another

without the use of like or as

It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.

(Shakespeare 3 Act 2 Scene 2)

28. Simile*

-a figure of speech in which two unlike

things are explicitly compared

As if that name, Shot from the deadly level

of a gun, Did murder her, as that names
cursed hand. (Shakespeare 103 - 104 Act 3
Scene 3)

29. Allusion*

-a figure of speech that makes a reference

to a place, person, or something that
happened

More than Prince of Cats Prince of Cats is

used to reference Tybalt. (Shakespeare 18
Act 2 Scene 4)

30.
Hyperbole*

-used to evoke strong feelings or to create a

strong impression, but its not meant to be
taken literally

There is no world without Verona walls, But

purgatory, torture, hell itself. (Shakespeare
17 - 18 Act 3 Scene 3)