Romeo and Juliet Drama Terms

This is a conversation between characters in a literary work.

• monologue

• dialogue

• aside

• allusion

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

• soliloquy

• sonnet

• dialogue

• monologue

This is a speech given by a character when he or she is alone on stage that lets the audience know what the character is thinking.

• sonnet

• dialogue

• soliloquy

• monologue

This is a poem of fourteen lines with a certain rhyme scheme and it typically has ten syllables per line.

• soliloquy

• sonnet

• pun

• blank verse

This is brief reference during a story or play to something outside of the work that is well-known, like a famous historical event or literary figure.

• allusion

• foil

• dramatic convention

• pun

When a character speaks on stage, either to the audience or to another character, while others are on stage with him or her. Other characters not involved in the speaking are not to hear this.

• aside

• monologue

• dialogue

• soliloquy

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

• pun

• foil

• sonnet

• dramatic conventions

This is a character that makes another character stand out by sharply contrasting one another.

• allusion

• foil

• blank verse

• pun

This is a form of poetry that uses unrhymed lines.

• pun

• foil

• blank verse

• sonnet

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

• dramatic conventions

• soliloquy

• dialogue

• pun