Romeo and Juliet Literary and Dramatic Terms

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Drama ending in catastrophe

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Tragedy

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Protagonist with a flaw, high status, meets downfall

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Tragic Hero

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Characters contrasting sharply to highlight traits

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Dramatic Foil

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Long speech by a character alone on stage

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Soliloquy

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Long speech by a character to others on stage

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Monologue

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Short speech to the audience, unheard by others

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Aside

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Audience knows more than characters

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Dramatic Irony

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Amusing scene or speech in serious work

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Comic Relief

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank Verse

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Meter with 5 unstressed + stressed syllables

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Iambic Pentameter