R&J lit.terms review

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Hints about future events

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Foreshadowing

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Audience knows something characters don't

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Dramatic irony

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A play on words that sound or look similar

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Pun

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Comment made in undertone for select characters/audience

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Aside

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Long speech by a character alone on stage

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Soliloquy

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Character with contrasting traits

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Dramatic foil

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Instructions for actors in a play

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Stage directions

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A novel or short story is written in...

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Prose

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Ten syllables per line, alternating stresses

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Iambic pentameter

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Using comedy in serious scenes

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comic relief