Romeo and Juliet literary terms

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iambic pentameter

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a poem with ten syllables in a line with stressed or unstressed syllables

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metaphor

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comparing without using 'like' or 'as'

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aside

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a short speech heard by the audience but not other characters

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couplet

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a stanza of two rhyming lines

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soliloquy

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when a character gives a speech to himself/herself so the audience learns about the character's inner thoughts

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imagery

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descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates a mental picture

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foreshadowing

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providing hints of what is to come in the story

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alliteration

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the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words

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oxymoron

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a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms

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hyperbole

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exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally