Romeo and Juliet Vocab Quiz

A play in which events turn out disastrously for the main characters.

• Comedy

• Sonnet

• Soliloquy

• Tragedy

A long, uninterrupted speech a character gives in front of other characters

• Prologue

• Monologue

• Dialogue

• Soliloquy

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

• Soliloquy

• Sonnet

• Couplet

• Prologue

Introduction to the play that summarizes the story

• Prologue

• Chorus

• Soliloquy

• Apostrophe

A character speaking directly to the audience or a specific character so the other characters can't hear it

• Monologue

• Aside

• Apostrophe

• Dialogue

Speaking to an object as though it could respond

• Aside

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

• Apostrophe

A long speech in which one character speaks thoughts aloud to the audience

• Soliloquy

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Allusion

A reference, within a story, to something outside that story that the reader is familiar with

• Foreshadowing

• Apostrophe

• Aside

• Allusion

Conversation between two or more characters on stage

• Monologue

• Aside

• Dialogue

• Prologue

Hints or clues in the play or story to indicate future events

• Foreshadowing

• Apostrophe

• Allusion

• Prologue