Romeo and Juliet Literary Terms (Vocab Set 8)

a speech a character gives when he or she is alone on stage that lets the audience know what the character is thinking

• sonnet

• soliloquy

• dialogue

• monologue

a brief reference, inside a literary work, to something outside of the work that is well-known like a famous historical event or literary figure

• allusion

• pun

• dramatic convention

• aside

a type of figurative language that is a play on words or a joke based on a word with multiple meanings

• dramatic convention

• allusion

• foil

• pun

a character that makes another character stand out by sharply contrasting one another

• pun

• foil

• blank verse

• dramatic convention

a form of poetry that uses unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

• sonnet

• soliloquy

• blank verse

• monologue

literary devices that theater audiences accept as realistic even though they do not reflect the way real-life people behave

• allusion

• pun

• foil

• dramatic convention

a character’s dialogue on stage, either to the audience or another character, that others on stage are not to hear

• monologue

• soliloquy

• sonnet

• aside

a long speech made by one character to one or more characters on stage

• dialogue

• monologue

• soliloquy

• sonnet

a poem of fourteen lines with a certain rhyme scheme and typically having ten syllables per line

• blank verse

• sonnet

• soliloquy

• dialogue

conversations between characters in a literary work

• monologue

• sonnet

• dialogue

• soliloquy