Romeo and Juliet Flashcard

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Speaker of: 'Part, fools! Put up your swords. You know not what you do!'

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Benvolio

Front

A play with serious actions, ending unhappily

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Tragedy

Front

Poetry with 10 syllables per line, unstressed-stressed

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Iambic pentameter

Front

Several lines by one character alone

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Soliloquy

Front

14 lines of rhymed poetry in iambic meter

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Sonnet

Front

Two lines of poetry that rhyme

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Couplet

Front

Expression combining contradictory ideas

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Oxymoron

Front

Main character in a tragedy

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Tragic hero

Front

One character speaks multiple lines

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Monologue

Front

Audience knows something character does not

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Dramatic irony