Romeo & Juliet Review

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Poetry with 10 syllables per line, alternating unstressed and stressed

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Iambic pentameter

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Several lines by one character alone on stage

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Soliloquy

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Expression combining contradictory ideas

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Oxymoron

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Audience knows something character does not

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Dramatic irony

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Iambic meter example

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Instead of going to the store, I went to sleep today.

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Lines spoken to the audience, unheard by other actors

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Figurative language comparing without like or as

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Metaphor

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Literary device hinting future events

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Foreshadowing

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Brief reference to something well-known

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Allusion

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Type of figurative language: play on words

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pun