Romeo and Juliet Test
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- iambic pentametre
- body of meaurement
- prose
- language that goes right to the end of the page
- poetry
- does not go to the end of the line, normally has metre
- black verse
- unrhymed iambic pentametre
- scansion
- metrical placement or device for poectry
- virgule
- "_______________/____________"
- humour
- a theory of medieval and renaissance medicide in whihc human disposition is dominated
- soliloquy
- a talk a character gives to themselves that only thema nd the audience can hear
- aside
- something said to the audience only and the other characters cannot hear
- oxymoron
- expression of apparent contradiction
- pun
- use of the smae sounding words with different meanings for humour
- dramatic climaz
- the place in the play that is the most suspenseful
- technical climax
- everything must ascend (comedy) or descend (tragedy)
- sonnet
- 14 lined lyrical poem
- hero
- character we identify with, normally superior to us
- comic relief
- a character that provides humour to lighten the atmosphere after a "heavy" scene
- negative capability
- keat's idea that shakespeare, of all literary artists, was best able to seperate himself and characters from himself