Romeo and Juliet

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A play with serious actions, ending unhappily

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Tragedy

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Poetry with ten syllables per line, alternating unstressed and stressed

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Iambic pentameter

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Several lines by one character alone

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Soliloquy

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14 lines of poetry, rhymes, iambic meter

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sonnet

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Two lines of poetry that rhyme

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Couplet

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Word meaning 'before'

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ere

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Expression combining contradictory ideas

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Oxymoron

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Main character in a tragedy

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Tragic hero

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Poetry in iambic meter, no rhyme

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Blank verse

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A play that ends happily, usually in a wedding

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Comedy