Drama Lit Terms for Romeo and Juliet
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- Closing speech from an actor directly to the audience.
- Epilogue
- Long speech where a character is onstage alone expressing his thoughts.
- Soliloquy
- Sampson and Gregory have a(n) ? in the opening scene.
- Aside
- Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
- Blank Verse
- All of Shakespeares plays were...
- Dramas
- A group of actors who comment on and interpret the unfolding events onstage.
- Chorus
- In general, a story that ends happily.
- Comedy
- A play on words (by multiple meanings or two homophones).
- Pun
- Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
- Couplet
- Audience knows something the character doesn't.
- Dramatic Irony
- A story that is written to be acted out for an audience.
- Drama
- Romeo says: "What light through yonder window breaks?" is an example of...
- Blank Verse
- Juliet's exit line from the balcony is an example of this.
- Couplet
- A written or oral composition given by a single actor.
- Monologue
- Introduction spoken by either the chorus or by a principle character.
- Prologue
- Romeo and Juliet is an opposite of this term.
- Comedy
- Mercutio said "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find a grave man"
- Pun
- A story that ridicules something in order to reveal a weakness
- Satire
- Dialogue to the audience or other character that the rest of the cast doesn't hear.
- Aside
- Romeo delivers this in Act V, Scene 3.
- Soliloquy
- Play that depicts serious events and has a downfall of the protagonist.
- Tragedy
- Romeo and Juliet are an example of this term.
- Tragedy
- People who gather to see and hear a performance.
- Audience