Rome & Juliet Lit Terms/ Prologue

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Definition of tragedy

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Serious narrative with unhappy ending

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An unusually long speech by a character alone on stage

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soliloquy

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Play on multiple meanings or similar sounding words

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Pun

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Figure of speech: contradictory words

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Oxymoron

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Audience knows something character doesn't

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Dramatic irony

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Line of poetry with five iambs

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iambic pentameter

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Character used as contrast

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Foil

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Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry

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Couplet

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Comic scene in serious narrative

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Comic relief

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Words spoken to the audience or another character, unheard by others

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