Shakespear/Elizabethan Theater/Romeo and Juliet Vocab
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- allusion
- an indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event
- aside
- a dramatic device in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud, in words meant to be heard only by thh audience
- badinage
- a light or playful discourse
- blank verse
- unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
- chorus
- (Elizabethan theatre) a single actor who serves as narrator and speakes the lines in the Prologue and/or Epilogue
- chronology
- the order in which events occur
- comic relief
- a humorous interlude in a serious drama to provide a change form emotional intensity
- conceit
- an eleborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor
- external conflict
- conflict between the character and outside forces
- interal conflict
- conflict occuring within the character
- couplet
- a rhymed pair of lines
- dialogue
- verbal exchange between characters (written into script)
- dramatic dialects
- language expressed by characters, usually to differentiate between social classes or regions
- dramatic monologue
- a lyric poem recited by a a character, usually onstage alone, having a one-side conversation
- exhortation
- language meant to incite and encouragel a persuasive discourse; and admonition; a homily
- figurative language
- communicates ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meanings of words
- foil
- a character who provides a striking contrast to another character
- foreshadow
- an indication through hints or clues of wwhat is going to happen later in the story
- iambic pentameter
- metrical line of five feet, each of which is made up of two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed
- imagery
- descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader
- dramatic irony
- the reader or viewer of the performance knows something that a character does not know
- lamentation
- expression of grief or sorrow, wailing
- lightning scene
- an episode that occurs a litle aside from the main movement of the story that is meant to illustrate a particular aspect (i.e., the argument between Peter and the musicians)
- mood
- the feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader (descriptive words, setting, figurative language)
- tone
- the attitude a writer takes towards a subject, tone reflects the feelings of the writer (emotions evoked while reading)
- plot
- sequence of events in the story (exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution)
- prologue
- the beginning/introduction of the drama/act, usually performed by a Chorus
- proletarian pose
- popular (or commonly known) writing or discourse
- satire
- spoof; make jest; ridicule for the purpose of improving society
- scherzo
- music term meaning "joke" in Italian refers to the Queen Mab dream story
- soliloquy
- a character speaks his thoughts aloud while onstage alone, not speaking to other characters or to the audience
- sonnet
- lyric poem of 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter; Shakespearean has 3 quatrains and a final couplet (abab cdcd efef gg)
- tone shift
- specific shift in tone within a scene
- tradegy
- a dramatic work that presents the downfall of a noble character involved in historically or socially significant events
- "a sudden rash half-capriole"
- a moment of poetic high spirits expressing a taste for the unexpected (at the end when the degrees of involvement in mourning are evident)