Romeo and Juliet Literary Terms

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a play of serious actions that ends unhappily

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tragedy

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poetry with ten syllables per line, alternating an unstressed one with a stressed one

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iambic pentameter

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Several lines spoken by one character alone on stage

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soliloquy

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14 lines of poetry that rhymes and is written in iambic meter

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sonnet

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Two lines of poetry in a row that rhyme

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couplet

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before

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ere

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An expression that combines contradictory ideas together

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oxymoron

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A main character in a tragedy

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tragic hero

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poetry that's written in iambic meter but doesn't 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