English Mid-term
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ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
--Mercutio
This is an example of: - Pun
- Define Tragedy
- A story where the main character is brought to ruin or suffers much sorrow.
- The Prologue is an example of:
- sonnet
- Define Monologue
- A speech given to actors by another actor.
- The nurse serves as:
- Comic Relief
- Define Comedy
- A light-hearted and humorous story.
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Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,...Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.
--Prince
This is an example of:
- Monologue
- Define Allusion
- The reference to biblical names or stories or mythological names or stories.
- The prologue was said by:
- The Chorus
- Define Personification
- Giving human qualities or thoughts to an animal, object, or idea.
- Romeo reffering to Diana and Cupid is an example of:
- Allusion
- Define Foreshadowing
- The use of hints or clues to foretell future events in the story.
- Define Hyperbole
- Intentional exaggeration usually used in emphasis on humor.
- Define Prologue
- The introduction that is said at the beginning of a play or story.
- The Magic Potion forces:
- Willing Suspension of Disbelief
- Define Quatrain
- The quatrain is a poem or stanza of four lines.
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A plague o' both your houses!
--Mercutio
This is an example of: - Foreshadowing
- Define Imagery
- The Authors use of words to paint a picture in your mind.
- Mercutio and the nurse are examples of:
- foils
- Define Pun
- The use of a word with two meanings so that a line may mean two different things.
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Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
--Romeo
This is an example of: - aside
- Define Theme
- The main Idea or message that is conveyed. Usually is an insight to human experience.
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ROMEO
In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face. Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!...O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
This is an example of: - Soliloquy
- Define Dramatic Irony
- When The audience knows something the characters do not.
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ROMEO
I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars.
This is an example of: - Foreshadowing
- Define Foil
- A character whose traits are in contrast to another character's traits.
- This play is in the genre of:
- Tragedy
- Define Soliloquy
- A speech given to the audience by an actor that is alone on the stage.
- Define Willing Suspension of Disbelief
- When the audience is forced to set aside what they know to be true.
- Define Chorus
- A Group of people whose job it is to comment on what has happend.
- Define Sonnet
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A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme.
Its fourteen lines break into an octave (or octet), which usually rhymes abbaabba, and a sestet. - Define Tragic Flaw
- A character's trait that causes his sorrow or demise.
- Define Rhyme
- Using two words that end with the same sound.
- Define Oxymoron
- When an author uses opposites to describe each other.
- Define Aside
- When an actor is not alone and says somthing to the audience but not the other actors.
- Define Metaphor
- The comparisan of to things without the use of like or as.
- Define Simile
- The comparison of two things using like or as.
- Define Comic Relief
- The way an author lightens the mood.