romeo and juliet: dramatic and literary devices

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Monologue

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A long speech by a character to an audience

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Pun

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Play of words with multiple meanings, often humorous

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Apostrophe

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Addressing someone absent, dead, or nonhuman as if alive.

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Inversion

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Rearranging grammatical elements to fit poetic meter

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Antithesis

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Contrary ideas in a balanced sentence

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Prose

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Straightforward, ordinary speech; no rhythm or meter.

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Iambic Pentameter

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Poetic meter with 5 feet; unstressed/stressed pattern

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Trochaic Tetrameter

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Poetic meter with 4 feet; stressed/unstressed pattern

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Couplet

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Two successive lines of poetry with the same meter and rhyme, forming a complete thought.

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Soliloquy

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A lengthy speech by a character alone on stage, expressing thoughts aloud.