Romeo & Juliet Literary Terms

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A play using dialogue and action

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Drama

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Play with tragic events and unhappy ending

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Tragedy

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Introduction to a work

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Prologue

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14-line poem

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Sonnet

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Written in paragraph form without rhyme or meter

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Prose

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Group of performers commenting together

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Chorus

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Where someone says something but means something else

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Verbal Irony

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Audience knows more than character

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Dramatic irony

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Long speech by one character

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Monologue

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Character alone on stage, long speech

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Soliloquy